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Motivated by the PAMELA anomaly in the fluxes of cosmic-ray electron and positron, we study the cosmic gamma-ray induced by the inverse Compton (IC) scattering process in unstable dark matter scenario assuming that the anomaly is due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

The WMAP experiment has revealed an excess of microwave emission from the region around the center of our Galaxy. It has been suggested that this signal, known as the ``WMAP Haze'', could be synchrotron emission from relativistic electrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Hooper , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Gregory Dobler

The particle nature of dark matter (DM) has been a long-lasting mystery. Many models suggest that DM could decay or self annihilate into standard model particles, and thus could be a source of gamma rays in the sky. The High Altitude Water…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-15 Dylan M. H. Leung , Kenny C. Y. Ng

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) have long reigned as one of the leading classes of dark matter candidates. The observed dark matter abundance can be naturally obtained by freezeout of weak-scale dark matter annihilations in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-20 Rebecca K. Leane , Tracy R. Slatyer , John F. Beacom , Kenny C. Y. Ng

Inverse Compton scattering by relativistic electrons produces a major component of the diffuse emission from the Galaxy. The photon fields involved are the cosmic microwave background and the interstellar radiation field from stars and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-04 Elena Orlando , Andrew W. Strong

The intense Compton cooling of ultra-relativistic electrons in the Klein-Nishina regime in radiation dominated environments, such as that found in the Galactic Centre, may result in radically different electron spectra than those produced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. A. Hinton , F. A. Aharonian

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

A generic feature of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter models is the emission of photons over a broad energy band resulting from the stable yields of dark matter pair annihilation. Inverse Compton scattering off cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tesla E. Jeltema , Stefano Profumo

The WIMP proposed here yields the observed abundance of dark matter, and is consistent with the current limits from direct detection, indirect detection, and collider experiments, if its mass is $\sim 72$ GeV/$c^2$. It is also consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-02 Reagan Thornberry , Maxwell Throm , Gabriel Frohaug , John Killough , Dylan Blend , Michael Erickson , Brian Sun , Brett Bays , Roland E. Allen

Several recent studies have considered modifications to the standard weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) scenario in which the cross section (times relative velocity v) for pair annihilation is enhanced by a factor 1/v. Since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Marc Kamionkowski , Stefano Profumo

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

Recently, an analysis of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has revealed a flux of gamma rays concentrated around the inner ~0.5 degrees of the Milky Way, with a spectrum that is sharply peaked at 2-4 GeV. If interpreted as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-05 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The nature of the cosmic dark matter is unknown. The most compelling hypothesis is that dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the 100 GeV mass range. Such particles would annihilate in the galactic halo,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Edward A. Baltz , James E. Taylor , Lawrence L. Wai

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are a viable candidate for the relic abundance of dark matter (DM) produced in the early universe. So far WIMPs have eluded direct detection through interactions with baryonic matter. Neutrino…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zacharia Myers , Adi Nusser

The hierarchical clustering observed in cold dark matter simulations results in highly clumped galactic halos. If the dark matter in our halo is made of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), their annihilation products should be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Blasi , A. V. Olinto , C. Tyler

The annihilation of Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMP) in the centre of the sun could give rise to neutrino fluxes. We study the prospects of searching for these neutrinos at the upcoming Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) detector to be…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-05-04 Sandhya Choubey , Anushree Ghosh , Deepak Tiwari

We investigate the prospects of detecting weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter by measuring the contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray radiation induced, in any dark matter halo and at all redshifts, by WIMP pair…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Piero Ullio , Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Cedric Lacey

The gamma-ray fluxes observed by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) from the J1745-290 Galactic Center source is well fitted by the secondary photons coming from Dark Matter (DM) annihilation in particle-antiparticle standard model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-31 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Viviana Gammaldi , Antonio L. Maroto

A number of groups have employed radio observations of the Galactic center to derive stringent constraints on the annihilation cross section of weakly interacting dark matter. In this paper, we show that electron energy losses in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-09 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

If weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs) make up the galactic dark matter halo, high densities of such particles would exist near massive bodies, such as the sun. The resulting annihilations are believed to produce neutrinos, gamma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. W. Hooper