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The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is a wide field of view observatory sensitive to 500 GeV - 100 TeV gamma rays and cosmic rays. It can also perform diverse indirect searches for dark matter (DM) annihilation…

Indirect searches for Dark Matter (DM) particles with mass in the MeV -- GeV scale have received significant attention lately. Pair-annihilations of such DM particles in the Galaxy can give rise to (at the same time) MeV to GeV…

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A wealth of astrophysical and cosmological observational evidence shows that the matter content of the universe is made of about 85$\%$ of non-baryonic dark matter. Huge experimental efforts have been deployed to look for the direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-17 Igor Reis , Emmanuel Moulin , Aion Viana

The next generation of neutrino telescopes will feature unprecedented sensitivities in the detection of neutrinos. Here we study the capabilities of a large-scale neutrino telescope, like the fully-operating KM3NeT experiment in the near…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 L. Salvador Miranda , S. Basegmez du Pree , K. C. Y. Ng , A. Cheek , C. Arina

We forecast the reach of the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) to the full set of real representations within the paradigm of minimal dark matter. We employ effective field theory techniques to compute the annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-18 Matthew Baumgart , Salvatore Bottaro , Diego Redigolo , Nicholas L. Rodd , Tracy R. Slatyer

Telescopes based on the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique (IACTs) detect images of the atmospheric showers generated by gamma rays and cosmic rays as they are absorbed by the atmosphere. The much more frequent cosmic-ray events form…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 D. Nieto , A. Brill , B. Kim , T. B. Humensky

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation gamma-ray observatory and will be the major global instrument for very-high-energy astronomy over the next decade, offering 5 - 10 x better flux sensitivity than current…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 J. Aschersleben , R. F. Peletier , M. Vecchi , M. H. F. Wilkinson

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground based observatory in very high energy gamma ray astronomy. The facility will achieve a wide energy coverage, starting from a threshold of a few tens of GeV up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel , M. Gaug , P. Majumdar

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will probe the non-thermal universe above 20 GeV up to several hundreds of TeV with a significant improvement in sensitivity and angular resolution compared to current experiments. Its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 Julien Lefaucheur , Catherine Boisson , Zeljka Bosnjak , Matteo Cerruti , Christoph Deil , Jean-Philippe Lenain , Santiago Pita , Andreas Zech

We revisit the simplest model for dark matter. In this context the dark matter candidate is a real scalar field which interacts with the Standard Model particles through the Higgs portal. We discuss the relic density constraints as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Michael Duerr , Pavel Fileviez Perez , Juri Smirnov

Recent results from direct detection experiments such as LUX, PANDAX-II and XENON100 have imposed severe constraints on the multi-GeV mass window in various dark matter (DM) models. However, many of these experiments are not sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-11 Debajyoti Choudhury , Divya Sachdeva

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next major ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. With CTA gamma-ray sources will be studied in the very-high energy gamma-ray range of a few tens of GeV to 100 TeV with up to ten times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-05 Kevin J. Meagher

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation stereoscopic system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). In IACTs, the atmosphere is used as a calorimeter to measure the energy of extensive air showers induced by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Mario Pecimotika , Dijana Dominis Prester , Dario Hrupec , Saša Mićanović , Lovro Pavletić , Julian Sitarek

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to serve as a ground-based observatory for (very-)high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, open to a wide astrophysics community, providing a deep insight into the non-thermal high-energy universe. It…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Renaud

Gamma-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 ($\gamma$-NLSy1) galaxies are thought to harbour relatively low-mass black holes (10$^6$-10$^8$ M$_{\odot}$) accreting close to the Eddington limit. They show characteristics similar to those of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-11 P. Romano , S. Vercellone , L. Foschini , F. Tavecchio , M. Landoni , J. Knödlseder

Several types of binary systems have been detected up to now at high and very high gamma-ray energies, including microquasars, young pulsars around massive stars and colliding wind binaries. The study of the sources already known, and of…

We study the fluctuations in the brightness temperature of 21-cm signal $\delta T_{21}$ at the dark ages ($z\sim100$) with a dark matter candidate in Inter Doublet Model (IDM). We then explore the effects of different fractions of IDM dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Rupa Basu , Madhurima Pandey , Debasish Majumdar , Shibaji Banerjee

In recent years, ground-based very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy has experienced a major breakthrough with the impressive astrophysical results obtained mainly by the current generation experiments like H.E.S.S., MAGIC,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. M. Wagner , E. J. Lindfors , A. Sillanpää , S. Wagner

Very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays provide a unique probe into the non-thermal processes in the universe. The ground-based Imaging Air Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) for detecting VHE gamma-rays have been perfected, so a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Massimo Persic

The planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a future ground-based Very-High-Energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory, will be the largest project of its kind. It aims to provide an order of magnitude increase in sensitivity compared to currently…