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Our Galaxy resides in the center of a vast "Halo" of Dark Matter (DM). This concentration produces, in many viable particle physics models, an indirect Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) annihilation signal that peaks in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Brandon Anderson

We use the latest cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations to provide updated constraints on the dark matter lifetime as well as on p-wave suppressed annihilation cross sections in the 1 MeV to 1 TeV mass range. In contrast to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-17 Roberta Diamanti , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Aaron C. Vincent

Nearby clusters and groups of galaxies are potentially bright sources of high-energy gamma-ray emission resulting from the pair-annihilation of dark matter particles. However, no significant gamma-ray emission has been detected so far from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 LAT Collaboration

It has been proposed that ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs) might be formed in earlier epoch. If dark matter consists of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), UCMHs can be treated as the {\gamma}-ray sources due to dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-30 Yupeng Yang , Lei Feng , Xiaoyuan Huang , Xuelei Chen , Tan Lu , Hongshi Zong

Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the early Universe can accret dark matter particles due to gravity and form ultracompact minihalos (UCMHs). The theoretical researches and simulations have shown that the density profile of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-08 Yupeng Yang

Galaxy clusters are dominated by dark matter, and may have a larger proportion of surviving substructure than, e.g, field galaxies. Due to the presence of galaxy clusters in relative proximity and their high dark matter content, they are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-01 Douglas Quincy Adams , Lars Bergstrom , Douglas Spolyar

The relic abundance of thermal dark matter particles is generally assumed to be inversely proportional to their annihilation rate, which is therefore constrained by the present matter density, <sigma v> ~ 10^{-26} Omega_{dm}^{-1} cm^3…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Leonid Chuzhoy

Observations of diffuse Galactic gamma ray emission (DGE) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) allow a detailed study of cosmic rays and the interstellar medium. However, diffuse emission models of the inner Galaxy underpredict the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-03 Lin F. Yang , Joseph Silk , Alexander S. Szalay , Rosemary F. G. Wyse , Brandon Bozek , Piero Madau

Ultracompact minihalo (UCMH) is a special type of dark matter halo with a very steep density profile which may form in the early universe seeded by an overdense region or a primordial black hole. Constraints on its abundance give valuable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Xing-Fu Zhang , Ji-Gui Cheng , Ben-Yang Zhu , Tian-Ci Liu , Yun-Feng Liang , En-Wei Liang

Several classes of astrophysical sources contribute to the approximately isotropic gamma-ray background measured by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. In this paper, we use Fermi's catalog of gamma-ray sources (along with corresponding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

Unveiling the nature of cosmic dark matter (DM) is an urgent issue in cosmology. Here we make use of a strategy based on the search for the imprints left on the cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization spectra by the energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Carmelo Evoli , Stefania Pandolfi , Andrea Ferrara

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) recently reported an excess of electrons/positrons above expected background fluxes even when a double power-law background spectrum is assumed. Several dark matter models that involve TeV-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-03 Geoff Beck , Sergio Colafrancesco

Electrons and positrons produced in dark matter annihilation can generate secondary emission through synchrotron and IC processes, and such secondary emission provides a possible means to detect DM particles with masses beyond the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-02 Xiao-Song Hu , Ben-Yang Zhu , Tian-Ci Liu , Yun-Feng Liang

Recent studies of radio data put strong constraints on annihilation cross section for dark matter. In this article, we provide the first analysis of using M33 radio data in constraining annihilating dark matter. The resulting constraints of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-24 Man Ho Chan

The density spike of dark matter (DM) in the subparsec region near the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center can provide potentially observable gamma-ray signals coming from DM annihilations. Taking Fermi-$LAT$ data for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Pearl Sandick , Kuver Sinha , Takahiro Yamamoto

We consider an alternative cold dark matter candidate, ultralight bosons ($m>10^{-22}$eV) described by a complex scalar field (SFDM) with global U(1) symmetry, with comoving particle number density conserved after particle production during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Bohua Li , Paul R. Shapiro , Tanja Rindler-Daller

High energy electrons and positrons from decaying dark matter can produce a significant flux of gamma rays by inverse Compton off low energy photons in the interstellar radiation field. This possibility is inevitably related with the dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Le Zhang , Christoph Weniger , Luca Maccione , Javier Redondo , Guenter Sigl

The spectrum of an isotropic extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background (EGB) has been measured by the Fermi-LAT telescope at high latitudes. Two new models for the EGB are derived from the subtraction of unresolved point sources and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Donato , F. Calore , V. De Romeri

Annihilation of light dark matter of $m_{\rm DM} \approx (10-40)$ GeV into the Standard Model fermions has been suggested as a possible origin of the gamma-ray excess at GeV energies in the Fermi-LAT data. In this paper, we examine possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Kyoungchul Kong , Jong-Chul Park

Dark matter annihilation into charged particles is necessarily accompanied by gamma rays, produced via radiative corrections. Internal bremsstrahlung from the final state particles can produce hard gamma rays up to the dark matter mass,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-01 Nicole F. Bell , Thomas D. Jacques