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Gamma-ray is a good probe of dark matter (DM) particles in the Universe. We search for the DM annihilation signals in the direction of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) using 7.5 year Fermi-LAT pass 8 data. Similar to Pshirkov et al. (2016), we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Zhengwei Li , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan , Yupeng Xu

The density spike of dark matter (DM) in the subparsec region near the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center can provide potentially observable gamma-ray signals coming from DM annihilations. Taking Fermi-$LAT$ data for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Pearl Sandick , Kuver Sinha , Takahiro Yamamoto

In models of dark matter (DM) with Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilation, where the annihilation rate scales as the inverse velocity, N-body simulations of DM structure formation suggest that the local annihilation signal may be dominated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Tracy R. Slatyer , Natalia Toro , Neal Weiner

Dark Matter remains a great mystery in modern physics. Among various candidates, the weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) scenario stands out and is under extensive study. The detection of the hypothetical gamma-ray emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Abhishek Abhishek , Shotaro Abe , Tomohiro Inada , Sofia Ventura , Michele Doro , Masahiro Teshima , Gaia Verna

We argue that the decomposition of gamma-ray maps in spherical harmonics is a sensitive tool to study dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay in the main Galactic halo of the Milky Way. Using the spherical harmonic decomposition in a window…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-12 Dmitry Malyshev , Jo Bovy , Ilias Cholis

We perform a joint analysis of dwarf galaxy data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in search of dark matter annihilation into a gamma-ray line. We employ a novel statistical method that takes into account the spatial and spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-10 Alex Geringer-Sameth , Savvas M. Koushiappas

We show the presence of a potentially detectable gamma-ray line in the Fermi Galactic center excess in light of the secluded (vector) dark matter (DM) model in which the hidden scalar, nearly degenerate with DM in mass, mediates the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Kwei-Chou Yang

There is evidence for a spectral line at $E_\gamma\approx 130$ GeV in the Fermi-LAT data that can be explained as dark mater particles annihilating into photons. We review a well known dark matter model that consists in a singlet Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-13 T. H. Franarin , C. A. Z. Vasconcellos , D. Hadjimichef

We perform a systematic study of the multi-wavelength signal induced by weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) annihilations at the Galactic Center (GC). Referring to a generic WIMP dark matter (DM) scenario and depending on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Regis , Piero Ullio

Dark matter particles annihilating into Standard Model fermions may be able to explain the recent observation of a gamma-ray excess in the direction of the Galactic Center. Recently, a hidden photon model has been proposed to explain this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Samuel D. McDermott

We examine the constraints on models of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter from the recent observations of the Galactic center by the High Energy Spectroscopic System (HESS) telescope. We analyze canonical WIMP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-09 Kevork N. Abazajian , J. Patrick Harding

We investigate the phenomenological viability of real spin half, zero and one dark matter candidates, which interact predominantly with third generation heavy quarks and gluons via the twenty-eight gauge invariant higher dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Sukanta Dutta , Lalit Kumar Saini

We study the superheavy dark matter (DM) scenario in an extended $B-L$ model, where one generation of right-handed neutrino $\nu_R$ is the DM candidate. If there is a new lighter sterile neutrino that co-annihilate with the DM candidate,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Ligong Bian , Xuewen Liu , Ke-Pan Xie

We present the first branon dark matter (DM) search in the very high-energy gamma-ray band with observations of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Segue~1 carried out by the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescope system.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-17 Tjark Miener , Daniel Nieto , Viviana Gammaldi , Daniel Kerszberg , Javier Rico

The center of the Milky Way is predicted to be the brightest region of gamma-rays generated by self-annihilating dark matter particles. Excess emission about the Galactic center above predictions made for standard astrophysical processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-10 Christopher Karwin , Simona Murgia , Tim M. P. Tait , Troy A. Porter , Philip Tanedo

We compare the measured angular cross-correlation between the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sky and catalogues of extra-galactic objects with the expected signal induced by weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM). We include a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-20 Alessandro Cuoco , Jun-Qing Xia , Marco Regis , Enzo Branchini , Nicolao Fornengo , Matteo Viel

We study the multi-wavelength signal induced by pairs annihilations at the Galactic center (GC) of a recently proposed dark matter (DM) candidate. The weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) candidate, named A_, is the first Kaluza-Klein…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Regis

We show that minimal, fermionic dark matter (DM) models in the $n$-dimensional representation of the weak force with zero hypercharge that make up 100% of the DM under the standard cosmological history are strongly excluded for $n < 9$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-23 Benjamin R. Safdi , Weishuang Linda Xu

We calculate, using unitarity, a lower bound on the branching ratio $\chi\chi\to \gamma\gamma$ and $\chi\chi\to \gamma Z$, where $\chi$ is any halo dark matter particle that has $W^+W^-$ as one of the major annihilation modes. Examples of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 L. Bergstrom , J. Kaplan

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument on board of the Fermi mission to constrain particle dark matter properties, as annihilation cross section, mass and branching ratio into dominant annihilation channels, with gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Nicolas Bernal , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz