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Future direct observations of the Cosmic Neutrino Background (C$\nu$B) have the potential to explore a neutrino lifetime, especially in the region of the age of the universe, $t_0=4.35\times 10^{17}\ {\rm s}$. We forecast constraints on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Kensuke Akita , Gaetano Lambiase , Masahide Yamaguchi

The cold dark matter may be in a meta-stable state and decays to other particles with a very long lifetime. If the decaying products of the dark matter are weakly interacting, e.g. neutrinos, then it would have little impact on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen

Thermal relics lighter than an MeV contribute to the energy density of the universe at the time of nucleosynthesis and recombination. Constraints on extra radiation degrees of freedom typically exclude even the simplest of such dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-29 Asher Berlin , Nikita Blinov

If dark matter is unstable and the mass is within GeV-TeV regime, its decays produce high-energy photons that give contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB). We constrain dark matter decay by analyzing the 50-month EGRB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

Since the report of the PeV-TeV neutrinos by the IceCube Collaboration, various particle physics models have been proposed to explain the neutrino spectrum by dark matter particles decaying into neutrinos and other Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Nagisa Hiroshima , Ryuichiro Kitano , Kazunori Kohri , Kohta Murase

Dark matter could decay into Standard Model particles producing neutrinos directly or indirectly. The resulting flux of neutrinos from these decays could be detectable at neutrino telescopes and would be associated with massive celestial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-10 Minjin Jeong , Carsten Rott

There exists considerable interest in dark matter candidates that can reduce cosmological structure at sub-galactic scales through a suppression of the power spectrum of primordial perturbations as well as have a primordial velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-12 Kevork N. Abazajian

Dark matter is poorly constrained by direct detection experiments at masses below 1 MeV. This is an important target for the next generation of experiments, and several methods have been proposed to probe this mass range. One class of such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-31 Benjamin V. Lehmann , Stefano Profumo

If sub-GeV Dark matter(DM) annihilates to the charged particles such as $e^+ e^-$, $\mu^+ \mu^-$, or $\pi^+ \pi^-$, it generates an additional source of electrons and positrons in the cosmic ray (CR) population within our Milky Way. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Guansen Wang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Zu , Lei Feng

Constraints on the indirect detection of dark matter are usually obtained from observations of astrophysical objects -- the Galactic Center, dwarf galaxies, M31, etc. Here we propose instead to look for the annihilation or decay of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia , Werner Rodejohann , Tim Wolf , Carlos E. Yaguna

The identification of the nature of dark matter is one of the most important problems confronting particle physics. Current observational constraints permit the mass of the dark matter to range from $10^{-22}$ eV - $10^{48}$ GeV. Given the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-08 Surjeet Rajendran

We study cosmic-rays in decaying dark matter scenario, assuming that the dark matter is the lightest superparticle and it decays through a R-parity violating operator. We calculate the fluxes of cosmic-rays from the decay of the dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-14 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

Light dark-matter ($M\leq20$ MeV) particles freeze out after neutrino decoupling. If the dark-matter particle couples to a neutrino or an electromagnetic plasma, the late time entropy production from dark-matter annihilation can change the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-14 Jae Ho Heo , C. S. Kim

A combined interpretation of the CALET $e^+\, +\, e^-$ spectrum up to 3 TeV and the AMS-02 positron spectrum up to 500 GeV was performed and the results are discussed. To parametrize the background electron flux, we assume a smoothly broken…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-23 S. Bhattacharyya , H. Motz , Y. Asaoka , S. Torii

Galaxy clusters are promising targets for indirect dark matter searches. Gamma-ray signatures from the decay or annihilation of dark matter particles inside these clusters could be observable with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiaoyuan Huang , Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

We examine the $X$-ray spectrum from the decay of the dark-matter moduli with mass $\sim {\cal O}(100)$keV, in particular, paying attention to the line spectrum from the moduli trapped in the halo of our galaxy. It is found that with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 T. Asaka , J. Hashiba , M. Kawasaki , T. Yanagida

The mass of the dark matter particle is unknown, and may be as low as ~$10^{-22}$ eV. The lighter part of this range, below ~eV, is relatively unexplored both theoretically and experimentally but contains an array of natural dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-27 Peter W. Graham , David E. Kaplan , Jeremy Mardon , Surjeet Rajendran , William A. Terrano

Current and most upcoming neutrino detectors can only reach a dark matter annihilation cross section to neutrinos larger than the standard freeze-out value, but they open intriguing detection avenues for non-standard dark matter paradigms.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-06 Shinya Kanemura , Shao-Ping Li , Dibyendu Nanda

We consider the consequences of a neutral dark-matter particle with a nonzero electric and/or magnetic dipole moment. Theoretical constraints, as well as constraints from direct searches, precision tests of the standard model, the cosmic…

In the energy range from few TeV to 25 TeV, upper bounds on the dark matter decay rate into high energy monochromatic neutrinos have recently become comparable to those on monochromatic gamma-ray lines. This implies clear possibilities of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-24 Chaïmae El Aisati , Michael Gustafsson , Thomas Hambye , Tiziana Scarna