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Antiprotons are regarded as a powerful probe for Dark Matter (DM) indirect detection and indeed current data from \PAMELA\ have been shown to lead to stringent constraints. However, in order to exploit their constraining/discovery power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Mathieu Boudaud

The dynamics of dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxies are observed to be dominated by dark matter (DM). Recently, the DM density distribution has been studied for 31 dIrrs. Their extended DM halo (Burket type profile) makes these objects good…

As the largest mass concentrations in the local Universe, nearby clusters of galaxies and their central galaxies are prime targets in searching for indirect signatures of dark matter annihilation (DMA). We seek to constrain the dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Sheetal Saxena , Alexander Summa , Dominik Elsässer , Michael Rüger , Karl Mannheim

Dark Matter (DM) is an elusive form of matter which has been postulated to explain astronomical observations through its gravitational effects on stars and galaxies, gravitational lensing of light around these, and through its imprint on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-07 James Bateman , Ian McHardy , Alexander Merle , Tim R. Morris , Hendrik Ulbricht

While dark matter (DM) is the key ingredient for a successful theory of structure formation, its microscopic nature remains elusive. Indirect detection may provide a powerful test for some strongly motivated DM particle models.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-05 Emmanuel Nezri , Julien Lavalle , Romain Teyssier

Light sub-GeV dark matter (DM) constitutes an underexplored target, beyond the optimized sensitivity of typical direct DM detection experiments. We comprehensively investigate hadrophilic light DM produced from cosmic-ray collisions with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Carlos A. Argüelles , Víctor Muñoz , Ian M. Shoemaker , Volodymyr Takhistov

If the dark matter is unstable, the decay of these particles throughout the universe and in the halo of the Milky Way could contribute significantly to the isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB) as measured by Fermi. In this article, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 Carlos Blanco , Dan Hooper

The present work analyzes various aspects of M31 gamma-ray halo emission in its relation to annihilating dark matter (DM). The main aspect is the predicted effect of asymmetry of the intensity of emission due to inverse Compton scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-28 Andrei E. Egorov

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

The Galactic Center region is expected to host the largest density of Dark Matter (DM) particles within the Milky Way. Then a relatively large gamma-ray signal would be expected from the possible DM particles annihilation (or decay). We are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Vincenzo Vitale , Aldo Morselli

Recent advances in gamma-ray cosmic ray, infrared and radio astronomy have allowed us to develop a significantly better understanding of the galactic medium properties in the last few years. In this work using the DRAGON code, that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Maryam Tavakoli , Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Piero Ullio

The search for Dark Matter (DM) has great potential to reveal physics beyond the Standard Model. As such, searches for evidence of DM particles are being carried out using a wide range of techniques, such as direct searches for DM…

Annihilating dark matter (DM) has been discussed as a possible source of gamma-rays from the galactic center (GC) and contributing to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). Assuming universality of the density profile of DM halos, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shin'ichiro Ando

Gamma-ray is a good probe of dark matter (DM) particles in the Universe. We search for the DM annihilation signals in the direction of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) using 7.5 year Fermi-LAT pass 8 data. Similar to Pshirkov et al. (2016), we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Zhengwei Li , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan , Yupeng Xu

Dark matter (DM)-electron scattering is a prime target of a number of direct DM detection experiments and constitutes a promising avenue for exploring interactions of DM in the sub-GeV mass-range, challenging to probe with nuclear recoils.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Muping Chen , Graciela B. Gelmini , Volodymyr Takhistov

The Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background (DGB) above 100 GeV at high-latitudes is expected to be produced by unresolved extragalactic objects such as active galactic nuclei, isotropic Galactic gamma-rays, and possible emission from dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-02 J. Patrick Harding

We show that the gamma ray spectrum observed with the HESS array of Cherenkov telescopes coming from the Galactic Center (GC) region and identified with the source HESS J1745-290, is well fitted by the secondary photons coming from dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 J. A. R. Cembranos , V. Gammaldi , A. L. Maroto

The precision measurements of the muon magnetic moment and the $W$ boson mass have sparked interest in the potential deviations from standard model (SM) predictions. While it may be premature to attribute any excesses in these precision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-05 Yi-Zhong Fan , Yao-Yu Li , Chih-Ting Lu , Xiao-Yi Luo , Tian-Peng Tang , Van Que Tran , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

[Abridged] Indirect detection of dark matter (DM) by multi-wavelength astronomical observations provides a promising avenue for probing the particle nature of DM. In the case of DM consisting of Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Alex McDaniel , Tesla Jeltema , Stefano Profumo

Existence of new gauge U(1) symmetry possessed by dark matter (DM) particles implies the existence of a new Coulomb-like interaction, which leads to Sommerfeld-Gamow-Sakharov enhancement of dark matter annihilation at low relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-01 K. Belotsky , M. Khlopov , A. Kirillov