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An interesting strategy for indirect detection of Dark Matter comes through the amounts of electrons and positrons usually emitted by DM pair annihilation. The e+e- gyrating in the galactic magnetic field then produce secondary synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-08 Enrico Borriello , Alessandro Cuoco , Gennaro Miele

Compact stellar objects are promising cosmic laboratories to test the nature of dark matter (DM). DM captured by the strong gravitational field of these stellar remnants transfers kinetic energy to the star during the collision. This can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 Sandra Robles

Dark matter (DM) is largely believed to be the dominant component of the matter content of the Universe. Astronomical measurements can be utilized to search for Standard Model (SM) annihilation or decay products of DM, complementing direct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-16 Chiara Giuri

Dark matter may induce apparent temporal variations in the physical "constants", including the electromagnetic fine-structure constant and fermion masses. In particular, a coherently oscillating classical dark-matter field may induce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 H. Grote , Y. V. Stadnik

Dark matter candidates with electromagnetic dipole moments can arise as dark baryons in gauge-mediated or technicolor models. These dark matter candidates interact with nuclei in direct detection experiments mainly through magnetic and/or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-08-04 Tom Banks , Jean-François Fortin , Scott Thomas

Several astrophysical and cosmological observations suggest the existence of dark matter (DM) through its gravitational effects, yet its nature remains elusive. Despite the lack of DM signals from direct detection experiments, efforts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Aman Gupta , Pooja Bhattacharjee , Pratik Majumdar

We investigate the possibility of detecting the gravitational influence of dark matter (DM) on the trajectory of prospective Doppler ranging missions to Uranus and Neptune. In addition, we estimate the constraints such a mission can provide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Lorenz Zwick , Deniz Soyuer , Jozef Bucko

Dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments aim to place constraints on the DM--nucleon scattering cross-section and the DM particle mass. These constraints depend sensitively on the assumed local DM density and velocity distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Robert Poole-McKenzie , Andreea S. Font , Billy Boxer , Ian G. McCarthy , Sergey Burdin , Sam G. Stafford , Shaun T. Brown

We explore the dark matter detection prospects in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model in the scenario where the scalar partners of the fermions and the Higgs particles (except for the Standard-Model-like one) are assumed to be very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-24 Nicolas Bernal

We propose a novel mechanism for photon-dark photon mass state oscillations mediated by gravitational separation during propagation through the interstellar medium. This phenomenon establishes a new avenue for the detection of dark matter.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 Zhang Bo , Luo Cui-Bai

Joint analyses of small-scale cosmological structure probes are relatively unexplored and promise to advance measurements of microphysical dark matter properties using heterogeneous data. Here, we present a multidimensional analysis of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 Ethan O. Nadler , Simon Birrer , Daniel Gilman , Risa H. Wechsler , Xiaolong Du , Andrew Benson , Anna M. Nierenberg , Tommaso Treu

If dark matter (DM) has non-zero direct or transition, electric or magnetic dipole moment then it can scatter nucleons electromagnetically in direct detection experiments. Using the results from experiments like XENON, CDMS, DAMA and COGENT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 Eduard Masso , Subhendra Mohanty , Soumya Rao

The Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) is a popular particle physics candidate for the dark matter (DM). It can annihilate and/or decay to neutrino and antineutrino pair. The proposed 50 kt Magnetized Iron CALorimeter (MagICAL)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-09 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Amina Khatun , Ranjan Laha

In this Letter, we present a new idea of probing the distribution of dark matter exhibiting elastic and velocity-independent self-interactions. These interactions might be revealed in multiple measurements of strongly lensed gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Shuo Cao , Jingzhao Qi , Zhoujian Cao , Marek Biesiada , Wei Cheng , Zong-Hong Zhu

We use diffuse Galactic high energy gamma ray data from LHAASO and Fermi-LAT to constrain gravitationally produced decaying dark matter (DM). Focusing on four benchmark candidates: a dark photon, a heavy right-handed neutrino (RHN), a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Basabendu Barman , Arindam Das , Prantik Sarmah , Rakesh Kumar SivaKumar

Dark matter is a key piece of the current cosmological scenario, with weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) a leading dark matter candidate. WIMPs have not been detected in their conventional parameter space (100 GeV $\lesssim…

Light feebly interacting dark matter is widely predicted in a plethora of new physics models. However, due to very feeble couplings with the Standard Model particles, its relic density produced via the relativistic thermal freeze-out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 Yuchao Gu , Liangliang Su , Lei Wu , Yongcheng Wu , Bin Zhu

We study the possibility of detecting gravitational-waves with matter-wave interferometers, where atom beams are split, deflected and recombined totally by standing light waves. Our calculation shows that the phase shift is dominated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-02 Dongfeng Gao , Peng Ju , Baocheng Zhang , Mingsheng Zhan

The signatures for the existence of dark matter are revealed only through its gravitational interaction. Theoretical arguments support that the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) can be a class of dark matter and it can annihilate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-28 Amina Khatun , Ranjan Laha , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla

Light Dark Matter (DM), defined here as having a mass between 1 MeV and about 1 GeV, is an interesting possibility both theoretically and phenomenologically, at one of the frontiers of current progress in the field of DM searches. Its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-06 Marco Cirelli , Nicolao Fornengo , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Elena Pinetti