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Inelastic Dark Matter (iDM) is an interesting thermal DM scenario that can pose challenges for conventional detection methods. However, recent studies demonstrated that iDM coupled to a photon by electric or magnetic dipole moments can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Krzysztof Jodłowski

Indirect detection of dark matter particles, i.e. the detection of annihilation or decay products of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, has entered a pivotal phase as experiments reach sensitivities that probe the most interesting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-10 Jan Conrad

We report the results of a search for an emission line from radiatively decaying dark matter in the Chandra X-ray Observatory spectrum of the ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxy Willman 1. 99% confidence line flux upper limits over the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Michael Loewenstein , Alexander Kusenko

We study a non-thermal scenario in a two-Higgs doublet extension of the standard model (SM), augmented by an U(1)_{\rm B-L} gauge symmetry. In this set up, it is shown that the decay product of a weakly coupled scalar field just above the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-03 Kazunori Kohri , Narendra Sahu

Over the past few decades, an anomalous 511 keV gamma-ray line has been observed from the centre of the Milky Way. Dark matter (DM) in the form of light weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) annihilating into electron-positron pairs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-01 Ryan J. Wilkinson , Aaron C. Vincent , Celine Boehm , Christopher McCabe

Dark matter particles need not be completely stable, and in fact they may be decaying now. We consider this possibility in the frameworks of universal extra dimensions and supersymmetry with very late decays of WIMPs to Kaluza-Klein…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Jonathan L. Feng , Louis E. Strigari

We derive limits on the dark matter annihilation cross section and lifetime using measurements of the AMS-02 antiproton ratio and positron fraction data. In deriving the limits, we consider the scenario of secondary particles accelerated in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Bo-Qiang Lu , Hong-Shi Zong

We study gamma-ray line signatures from electroweakly interacting non-abelian spin-1 dark matter (DM). In this model, $Z_2$-odd spin-1 particles including a DM candidate have the SU(2)$_L$ triplet-like features, and the Sommerfeld…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-29 Tomohiro Abe , Motoko Fujiwara , Junji Hisano , Kohei Matsushita

We study particle decay as the origin of dark radiation. After elaborating general properties and useful parametrisations we provide model-independent and easy-to-use constraints from nucleosynthesis, the cosmic microwave background and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-14 Jasper Hasenkamp , Jörn Kersten

We propose a scenario where Dark Matter (DM) annihilates into an intermediate state which travels a distance $\lambda \equiv v/\Gamma$ on the order of galactic scales and then decays to Standard Model (SM) particles. The long lifetime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 Ira Z. Rothstein , Thomas Schwetz , Jure Zupan

We consider constraints on a phenomenological dark-matter model consisting of two nearly degenerate particle species using observed properties of the Milky Way satellite galaxy population. The two parameters of this model, assuming the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-01-17 Annika H. G. Peter , Andrew J. Benson

Measurements of 21cm intensity mapping (IM) during the dark ages can potentially provide us with an unprecedented window on high redshifts and small scales. One of the main advantages this can bring involves the possibility to probe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Eleonora Vanzan , Alvise Raccanelli , Nicola Bartolo

Dark matter dominates the matter content of the Universe, and its properties can be constrained through large-scale structure probes such as the cross-correlation between the unresolved gamma-ray background (UGRB) and weak gravitational…

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), to be installed on the International Space Station, will provide data on cosmic radiations in the energy range from 0.5 GeV to 3 TeV. The main physics goals are the anti-matter and the dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Di Falco

Among the several strategies for indirect searches of dark matter, one very promising one is to look for the gamma-rays from decaying dark matter. Here we use the most up-to-date upper bounds on the gamma-ray flux from $10^5$ to $10^{11}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Marco Chianese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Rasmi Hajjar , Gennaro Miele , Ninetta Saviano

Recent precise observations of the 2.7 K CMB by the Planck mission toward the Coma cluster are not in agreement with X-ray measurements. To reconcile both types of measuring techniques we suggest that unstable dark matter is the cause of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-16 Konstantin Zioutas , Dieter Hoffmann , Konrad Dennerl , Thomas Papaevangelou

If dark matter is unstable and the mass is within GeV-TeV regime, its decays produce high-energy photons that give contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB). We constrain dark matter decay by analyzing the 50-month EGRB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

The electron-positron annihilation spectrum observed by SPI/INTEGRAL during deep Galactic Center region exposure is reported. The line energy (510.954$\pm$0.075 keV) is consistent with the unshifted annihilation line. The width of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev , S. Sazonov , M. Revnivtsev , D. Varshalovich

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are a theoretical class of particles that are excellent dark matter candidates. WIMP annihilation or decay may produce essentially monochromatic gamma rays detectable by the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration

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