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In this article, I summarize and discuss the body of evidence which has accumulated in favor of dark matter in the form of approximately 10 GeV particles. This evidence includes the spectrum and angular distribution of gamma rays from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-09 Dan Hooper

We consider the prospects for the indirect detection of low mass dark matter which couples dominantly to quarks. If the center of mass energy is below about 280 MeV, the kinematically allowed final states will be dominated by photons and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Kimberly K. Boddy , Jason Kumar

The first measurement on the antiproton to proton ratio made by the AMS-02 collaboration agrees with the expection from conventional cosmic-ray secondaries in the kinetic energy range $\sim 10-100$ GeV, which can be turned into stringent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Hong-Bo Jin , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

Motivated by a recent detection of 511 keV photons from the center of our Galaxy, we calculate the spectrum of the soft gamma-ray background of the redshifted 511 keV photons from cosmological halos. Annihilation of dark matter particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kyungjin Ahn , Eiichiro Komatsu

Recent experiments have measured the Galactic $\gamma$-ray diffuse emission up to PeV energies, opening a window to study acceleration of Galactic cosmic rays and their propagation up to the cosmic-ray knee. Furthermore, these observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Manuel Rocamora , Pedro De La Torre Luque , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

We improve limits on the spin-independent scattering cross section of Dark Matter on nucleons, for DM in the 300 MeV -- 100 GeV mass range, based on the DAMIC and XQC experiments. Our results close the window which previously existed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-22 M. Shafi Mahdawi , Glennys R. Farrar

This article presents constraints on dark-matter-electron interactions obtained from the first underground data-taking campaign with multiple SuperCDMS HVeV detectors operated in the same housing. An exposure of 7.63 g-days is used to set…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-26 SuperCDMS Collaboration , M. F. Albakry , I. Alkhatib , D. Alonso-González , D. W. P. Amaral , J. Anczarski , T. Aralis , T. Aramaki , I. J. Arnquist , I. Ataee Langroudy , E. Azadbakht , C. Bathurst , R. Bhattacharyya , A. J. Biffl , P. L. Brink , M. Buchanan , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , R. Calkins , R. A. Cameron , C. Cartaro , D. G. Cerdeño , Y. -Y. Chang , M. Chaudhuri , J. -H. Chen , R. Chen , N. Chott , J. Cooley , H. Coombes , P. Cushman , R. Cyna , S. Das , F. De Brienne , S. Dharani , M. L. di Vacri , M. D. Diamond , M. Elwan , E. Fascione , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , K. Fouts , M. Fritts , R. Germond , M. Ghaith , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , S. A. S. Harms , K. Harris , N. Hassan , Z. Hong , E. W. Hoppe , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , V. Iyer , D. Jardin , V. K. S. Kashyap , S. T. D. Keller , M. H. Kelsey , K. T. Kennard , A. Kubik , N. A. Kurinsky , M. Lee , J. Leyva , J. Liu , Y. Liu , B. Loer , E. Lopez Asamar , P. Lukens , D. B. MacFarlane , R. Mahapatra , J. S. Mammo , N. Mast , A. J. Mayer , H. Meyer zu Theenhausen , É. Michaud , E. Michielin , N. Mirabolfathi , M. Mirzakhani , B. Mohanty , D. Monteiro , J. Nelson , H. Neog , V. Novati , J. L. Orrell , M. D. Osborne , S. M. Oser , L. Pandey , S. Pandey , R. Partridge , D. S. Pedreros , W. Peng , L. Perna , W. L. Perry , R. Podviianiuk , S. S. Poudel , A. Pradeep , M. Pyle , W. Rau , E. Reid , R. Ren , T. Reynolds , M. Rios , A. Roberts , A. E. Robinson , J. L. Ryan , T. Saab , D. Sadek , B. Sadoulet , S. P. Sahoo , I. Saikia , J. Sander , A. Sattari , B. Schmidt , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , B. Serfass , A. Simchony , D. J. Sincavage , P. Sinervo , J. Street , H. Sun , E. Tanner , G. D. Terry , D. Toback , S. Verma , A. N. Villano , B. von Krosigk , S. L. Watkins , O. Wen , Z. Williams , M. J. Wilson , J. Winchell , K. Wykoff , S. Yellin , B. A. Young , T. C. Yu , B. Zatschler , S. Zatschler , A. Zaytsev , E. Zhang , L. Zheng , A. Zuniga , M. J. Zurowski

We present two complementary NuSTAR x-ray searches for keV-scale dark matter decaying to mono-energetic photons in the Milky Way halo. In the first, we utilize the known intensity pattern of unfocused stray light across the detector planes…

We recap the main features of Minimal Dark Matter (MDM) and assess its status in the light of the recent experimental data. The theory selects an electroweak 5-plet with hypercharge Y=0 as a fully successful DM candidate, automatically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Marco Cirelli , Alessandro Strumia

Dark matter particles may bind with nuclei if there exists an attractive force of sufficient strength. We show that a dark photon mediator of mass $\sim (10 - 100)$ MeV that kinetically mixes with Standard Model electromagnetism at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-14 Asher Berlin , Hongwan Liu , Maxim Pospelov , Harikrishnan Ramani

We consider the consequences of a neutral dark-matter particle with a nonzero electric and/or magnetic dipole moment. Theoretical constraints, as well as constraints from direct searches, precision tests of the standard model, the cosmic…

Recent measurements performed with some direct dark matter detection experiments, e.g. CDMS-II and CoGENT (after DAMA/LIBRA), have unveiled a few events compatible with weakly interacting massive particles. The preferred mass range is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-11 Julien Lavalle

Recent gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we derive new constraints for six standard model annihilation channels by using the recent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Man Ho Chan

The recent results of the EDGES collaboration indicate that during the era of reionization, the primordial gas was much colder than expected. The cooling of the gas could be explained by interactions between dark matter (DM) and particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Niki Klop , Shin'ichiro Ando

We calculate the scattering rate of sub-GeV dark matter in solid-state targets for spin-dependent dark matter -- nucleon interactions. For dark matter particles with mass below 100 MeV, the scattering occurs predominantly through incoherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-16 Stefania Gori , Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Pankaj Munbodh , Bethany Suter

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

Dark matter particles with a mass around 1 eV can decay into near-infrared photons. Utilising available public blank sky observations from the NIRSpec IFU on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we search for a narrow emission line due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-25 Ryan Janish , Elena Pinetti

Recent COMPTEL data analysis reveals a $\sim$ 2 MeV continuum excess whose spatial distribution closely matches the long-standing 511 keV line observed by INTEGRAL/SPI, indicating a common population of low-energy positrons that is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-16 Shyam Balaji , Damon Cleaver , Pedro De la Torre Luque

We reconsider the proposal of excited dark matter (DM) as an explanation for excess 511 keV gamma rays from positrons in the galactic center. We quantitatively compute the cross section for DM annihilation to nearby excited states, mediated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Fang Chen , James M. Cline , Anthony Fradette , Andrew R. Frey , Charles Rabideau

We report on recent progress in the search for dark matter particles with masses from 1 MeV to 1 GeV. Several dark matter candidates in this mass range are expected to generate measurable electronic-recoil signals in direct-detection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-02 Alvaro E. Chavarria