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Cosmic-ray antiprotons represent an important channel for dark matter indirect-detection studies. Current measurements of the antiproton flux at the top of the atmosphere and theoretical determinations of the secondary antiproton production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-02 N. Fornengo , L. Maccione , A. Vittino

Warm dark matter (WDM) might more easily account for small scale clustering measurements than the heavier particles typically invoked in Lambda cold dark matter (LCDM) cosmologies. In this paper, we consider a Lambda WDM cosmology in which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Casey R. Watson , John F. Beacom , Hasan Yuksel , Terry P. Walker

Thermal dark matter models generically include the prompt creation of highly-concentrated dark matter cusps in the early Universe. Recent studies find that these cusps can survive to the present day, as long as they do not fall into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Milena Crnogorčević , M. Sten Delos , Nadia Kuritzén , Tim Linden

Galaxy clusters are promising targets for indirect detection of dark matter thanks to the large dark matter content. Using 14 years of Fermi-LAT data from seven nearby galaxy clusters, we obtain constraints on the lifetime of decaying very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-17 Deheng Song , Kohta Murase , Ali Kheirandish

Recent observations suggest that some high-velocity clouds may be confined by massive dark matter halos. In particular, the proximity and proposed dark matter content of the Smith Cloud make it a tempting target for the indirect detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-01 Alex Drlica-Wagner , German A. Gomez-Vargas , John W. Hewitt , Tim Linden , Luigi Tibaldo

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

The recently published GALFA-HI Compact Cloud Catalogue lists 20 neutral hydrogen clouds that might pinpoint previously undiscovered high-latitude dwarf galaxies. Detection of an associated gamma-ray dark matter signal could provide a route…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Mirabal

We present constraints on the mean matter density, Omega_m, the normalization of the density fluctuation power spectrum, sigma_8, and the dark-energy equation-of-state parameter, w, obtained from measurements of the X-ray luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-03 A. Mantz , S. W. Allen , H. Ebeling , D. Rapetti

We present a new formalism designed to discover dark matter annihilation occurring in the Milky Way's dwarf galaxies. The statistical framework extracts all available information in the data by simultaneously combining observations of all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-28 Alex Geringer-Sameth , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Matthew G. Walker

We use recently released data on the positron-to-electron ratio in cosmic rays from the AMS-02 experiment to constrain dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way. Due to the yet unexplained positron excess, limits are generally weaker than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-31 Joachim Kopp

Recent discoveries of optical signatures of black holes in dwarf galaxies indicates that low-mass galaxies can indeed host intermediate massive black holes. This motivates the assessment of the resulting effect on the host dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Stefano Profumo , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

The self-annihilation of dark matter particles with mass in the MeV range can produce gamma rays via prompt or secondary radiation. The annihilation rate for such light dark matter particles is however tightly constrained by cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Stefano Profumo , Javier Reynoso-Córdova

Most proposed dark matter candidates are stable and are produced thermally in the early Universe. However, there is also the possibility of unstable (but long-lived) dark matter, produced thermally or otherwise. We propose a strategy to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

Recently, gamma-ray emission in the direction of Coma, with a TS value of $\sim 40$, has been reported. In this work we will discuss the possibility of such a residual emission coming from dark matter annihilation. Our results show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-08 Yun-Feng Liang , Zi-Qing Xia , Shao-Qiang Xi , Shang Li , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Yi-Zhong Fan

Previous attempts at explaining the gamma-ray excess near the Galactic Centre have focussed on dark matter annihilation directly into Standard Model particles. This results in a preferred dark matter mass of 30-40 GeV (if the annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-30 Celine Boehm , Matthew J. Dolan , Christopher McCabe

In the past decade, the properties of annihilating dark matter models were examined by various kinds of data, including the data of gamma rays, radio waves, X-ray, positrons, electrons, antiprotons and neutrinos. In particular, most of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-05 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee , C. -Y. Ng , Chun Sing Leung

We present an analysis of Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope data from $\omega$ Cen, possibly a stripped dwarf spheroidal galaxy core captured by our Galaxy. Recent interpretations of Fermi-LAT $\gamma$-ray data by Brown {\it et al.}…

We make a detailed analysis of the indirect diffuse gamma-ray signals from dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy. We include the prompt emission, as well as the emission from inverse Compton scattering whenever the annihilation products…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-14 Steve Blanchet , Julien Lavalle

Recently, it has been shown that electrons and positrons from dark matter (DM) annihilations provide an excellent fit to the Fermi, PAMELA, and HESS data. Using this DM model, which requires an enhancement of the annihilation cross section…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-20 Anders Pinzke , Christoph Pfrommer , Lars Bergstrom

Sub-GeV dark matter particles can annihilate or decay producing e^\pm pairs which upscatter the low-energy photon fields in the Galaxy and generate an X-ray emission (via the Inverse Compton effect). Using X-ray data from XMM-Newton,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-18 Marco Cirelli , Nicolao Fornengo , Jordan Koechler , Elena Pinetti , Brandon M. Roach