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We re-formulate cosmological perturbations in the decaying cold dark matter model, and calculate cosmological microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. By comparing our theoretical predictions with recent observational data from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kiyotomo Ichiki , Masamune Oguri , Keitaro Takahashi

We explore a dark-matter model in which there are two dark-matter species nearly degenerate in mass, with epsilon = Delta M/M << 1. The heavier particle undergoes two-body decay with a half-life tau, to the lighter dark-matter particle and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-24 Annika H. G. Peter , Christopher E. Moody , Andrew J. Benson , Marc Kamionkowski

We investigate the indirect detection search of the two-body decay of dark matter particles into final states containing a photon, a process predicted in various promising dark matter models such as axion-like particles and sterile…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-10 Wen Yin , Yutaka Fujita , Yuichiro Ezoe , Yoshitaka Ishisaki

We study sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles that may annihilate or decay into SM particles producing an exotic injection component in the Milky Way that leaves an imprint in both photon and cosmic ray (CR) fluxes. Specifically, the DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-25 Pedro De la Torre Luque , Shyam Balaji , Jordan Koechler

Dark matter (DM) particles decaying in the Galactic halo can inject energetic $e^\pm$ that inverse-Compton scatter (ICS) solar photons into $\gamma$-rays, producing a diffuse and extended halo of emission around the Sun. We present the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Maximilian Detering , Shyam Balaji

We investigate and compare the possibilities of observing decaying dark matter (DM) in $\gamma$-ray and radio telescopes. The special emphasise of the study is on a scalar heavy DM particle with mass in the trans-TeV range. DM decays,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-07 Avirup Ghosh , Arpan Kar , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

New long-lived particles produced at the colliders may escape from conventional particle detectors. Using satellites or ground telescopes, we can detect the photons generated from the annihilation of the star-captured dark matter into a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-01 Yu-Xuan Chen , Lei Zu , Zi-Qing Xia , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

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

We provide a correlation analysis of signatures associated with traces of the dark matter decay and the galaxy spatial distribution according to the 2MRS catalog of galaxies. Signature data analysis plays an important role in the context of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 V. V. Barinov

Precise measurements of spectra of cosmic ray electrons and positrons can effectively probe the nature of dark matter (DM) particles. In a class of models where DM particles initially annihilate into a pair of intermediate particles which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Lei Zu , Cun Zhang , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

We present a new analysis of the diffuse soft $\gamma$-ray emission towards the inner Galaxy as measured by the SPectrometer aboard the INTEGRAL satellite (SPI) with 16 years of data taking. The analysis implements a spatial template fit of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-12 J. Berteaud , F. Calore , J. Iguaz , P. D. Serpico , T. Siegert

Decaying or annihilating dark matter particles could be detected through gamma-ray emission from the species they decay or annihilate into. This is usually done by modelling the flux from specific dark matter-rich objects such as the Milky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-01 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Andrija Kostić , Harry Desmond , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

We refine the constraints on the lifetime of decaying super-heavy dark matter particles (SHDM), with masses ranging from $10^7$ to $10^{15}$ GeV, by analyzing ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray data. Our approach involves an accurate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Marco Chianese , Ninetta Saviano , Sara Cesare , Vincenzo M. Grieco , Valentina Nasti , Francesca Spinnato , Alessandro Tiano

The SPI spectrometer aboard of the INTEGRAL satellite has released a map of the e+e- annihilation emission line of unprecedented quality, showing that most of the photons arise from a region coinciding with the stellar bulge of the Milky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michel Casse , Pierre Fayet

If a component of cosmological dark matter is made up of massive particles - such as sterile neutrinos - that decay with cosmological lifetime to emit photons, the reionization history of the universe would be affected, and cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Yeung , M. H. Chan , M. -C. Chu

Utilizing the Fermi measurement of the gamma-ray spectrum toward the Galactic Center, we derive some of the strongest constraints to date on the dark matter (DM) lifetime in the mass range from hundreds of MeV to above an EeV. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-24 Timothy Cohen , Kohta Murase , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq

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

If dark matter decays or annihilates into electrons and positrons, it can affect radiation and cosmic-ray backgrounds. We review a novel, more general analysis of constraints on decaying dark matter models, by introducing the response…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-13 Le Zhang

Recent theoretical work has explored dark matter accumulation in the Earth and its drift towards the center of the Earth that, for the current age of the Earth, does not necessarily result in a concentration of dark matter ($\chi$) in the…

About one year ago, it was speculated that decaying or annihilating Light Dark Matter (LDM) particles could explain the flux and extension of the 511 keV line emission in the galactic centre. Here we present a thorough comparison between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Ascasibar , P. Jean , C. Boehm , J. Knoedlseder