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We investigate the direct detection phenomenology of a class of dark matter (DM) models in which DM does not directly interact with nuclei, {but rather} the products of its annihilation do. When these annihilation products are very light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 John F. Cherry , Mads T. Frandsen , Ian M. Shoemaker

We assess Galactic Dark Matter (DM) sensitivities to photons from annihilation and decay using the spatial and kinematic information determined by state-of-the-art simulations in the Latte suite of Feedback In Realistic Environments…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Dawei Zhong , Mauro Valli , Kevork N. Abazajian

While many interactions of dark matter (DM) with the standard model (SM) affect direct detection and LHC searches, there are only a few operators generating annihilation of DM into photons. All of these operators, except four of them, give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-24 Andreas Crivellin , Ulrich Haisch

Identifying signatures of dark matter at indirect-detection experiments is generally more challenging for scenarios involving non-minimal dark sectors such as Dynamical Dark Matter (DDM) than for scenarios involving a single dark particle.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-11 Kimberly K. Boddy , Keith R. Dienes , Doojin Kim , Jason Kumar , Jong-Chul Park , Brooks Thomas

We investigate the constraints on the Inert Doublet Model (IDM), a minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics featuring a scalar dark matter candidate, using data from recent and future gamma-ray observatories. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-19 Lucca Radicce Justino , Clarissa Siqueira , Aion Viana

The problem of the dark matter in the universe is reviewed. A short history of the subject is given, and several of the most obvious particle candidates for dark matter are identified. Particular focus is given to weakly interacting,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-15 Lars Bergström

We show, by using an extensive sample of viable supersymmetric models as templates, that indirect detection of dark matter through gamma rays may have a large potential for identifying the nature of dark matter. This is in particular true…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Joakim Edsjo

Monochromatic gamma-rays are thought to be the smoking gun signal for identifying the dark matter annihilation. However, the flux of monochromatic gamma-rays is usually suppressed by the virtual quantum effects since dark matter should be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhi-Cheng Tang , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi , Guo-Ming Chen

Dark matter (DM) particles are predicted by several well motivated models to yield Standard Model particles through self-annihilation that can potentially be detected by astrophysical observations. In particular, the production of charged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-15 Alex McDaniel , Tesla Jeltema , Stefano Profumo , Emma Storm

We study the prospects for detecting gamma-rays from Dark Matter (DM) annihilations in enhancements of the DM density (mini-spikes) around intermediate-mass black holes with masses in the range $10^2 \lsim M / \msun \lsim 10^6$. Focusing on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gianfranco Bertone , Andrew R. Zentner , Joseph Silk

Several direct detection experiments, including recently CDMS-II, have reported signals consistent with 5 to 10 GeV dark matter (DM) that appear to be in tension with null results from XENON and LUX experiments; these indicate a careful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-10 Yao-Yuan Mao , Louis E. Strigari , Risa H. Wechsler

Indirect searches for dark matter annihilation or decay products in the cosmic-ray spectrum are plagued by the question of how to disentangle a dark matter signal from the omnipresent astrophysical background. One of the practically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Christoph Weniger , Torsten Bringmann , Francesca Calore , Gilles Vertongen

Dark matter candidates such as weakly-interacting massive particles are predicted to annihilate or decay into Standard Model particles leaving behind distinctive signatures in gamma rays, neutrinos, positrons, antiprotons, or even…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-01 Jan Conrad , Olaf Reimer

Monochromatic photons could be produced in the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. At high energies, the search for such line features in the cosmic gamma-ray spectrum is essentially background free because plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

Models in which dark matter particles can scatter into a slightly heavier state which promptly decays to the lighter state and a photon (known as eXciting Dark Matter, or XDM) have been shown to be capable of generating the 3.55 keV line…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-29 Asher Berlin , Anthony DiFranzo , Dan Hooper

The purpose of line-intensity mapping (IM), an emerging tool for extragalactic astronomy and cosmology, is to measure the integrated emission along the line of sight from spectral lines emitted from galaxies and the intergalactic medium.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski , Marc Kamionkowski

Dark matter constitutes one of the most intriguing but so far unresolved issues in physics today. In many extensions of the Standard Model the existence of a stable Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) is predicted. The WIMP is an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Tomi Ylinen , Yvonne Edmonds , Elliott D. Bloom , Jan Conrad

A leading candidate for astrophysical dark matter (DM) is a massive particle with a mass in the range from 50 GeV to greater than 10 TeV and an interaction cross section on the weak scale. The self-annihilation of such particles in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Robert G. Wagner

The detection of non-baryonic dark matter through its gamma-ray annihilation in the centre of our galaxy has been studied. The gamma fluxes according to different models have been simulated and compared to those expected to be observed with…

Certain models of inert multiplets allow for semi-annihilation processes, in which two dark matter candidates annihilate to a dark matter particle and a non-dark matter particle. The existence of these processes can alleviate certain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-02 Hugues Beauchesne , Cheng-Wei Chiang