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We consider an extension of the Standard Model that accounts for the muon $g-2$ tension and neutrino masses and study in detail dark matter phenomenology. The model under consideration includes a WIMP and a FIMP scalar dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Francesco Costa , Sarif Khan , Jinsu Kim

The nature of Dark Matter remains one of the outstanding questions of modern astrophysics. The success of the Cold Dark Matter cosmological model argues strongly in favor of a major component of the dark matter being in the form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Casse , P. Fayet , S. Schanne , B. Cordier , J. Paul

The present work aims to study an extension of the Standard Model (SM) that addresses the prominent SM shortcomings, i.e., can explain the neutrino mass, the dark matter (DM) content, and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-15 Laura Covi , Shyamashish Dey , Sarif Khan , Santosh Kumar Rai

We discuss the possibility that the recent detection of 511 keV gamma rays from the galactic bulge, as observed by INTEGRAL, can be naturally explained by the supermassive very dense droplets (strangelets) of dark matter. These droplets are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 David H. Oaknin , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

We propose a WIMP candidate with an ``excited state'' 1-2 MeV above the ground state, which may be collisionally excited and de-excites by e+e- pair emission. By converting its kinetic energy into pairs, such a particle could produce a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Neal Weiner

Recent observations indicate that a high production rate of positrons (strong 511 keV line) and a significant amount of excess GeV gamma-ray exist in our Galactic bulge. The latter issue can be explained by $\sim 40$ GeV dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-29 Man Ho Chan

The precise measurements of energy spectra of cosmic ray positrons and/or electrons by recent experiments show clear excesses above 10 GeV. Moreover, a potential sharp spectral feature was suggested by the Dark Matter Particle Explorer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Lei Feng , Zhaofeng Kang , Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Yi-Zhong Fan

We propose a quasi-degenerate dark matter scenario to simultaneously explain the $1.4\,\textrm{TeV}$ peak in the high-energy cosmic-ray electron-positron spectrum reported by the DAMPE collaboration very recently and the $3.5\,\textrm{keV}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-05 Pei-Hong Gu

We present a scenario where dark matter is in the form of dark atoms that can accomodate the experimentally observed excess of positrons in PAMELA and AMS-02 while being compatible with the constraints imposed on the gamma-ray flux from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Konstantin Belotsky , Maxim Khlopov , Chris Kouvaris , Maxim Laletin

A number of signals involving charged cosmic rays and high-energy photons have been interpreted as being due to annihilating dark matter. This article provides an overview of the experimental evidence and discusses in particular detections…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Schwanke

The electron-positron annihilation gamma-ray signal at 511 keV in the Milky Way is investigated towards a possible dark matter interpretation. If all bulge positrons were created by dark matter particle annihilation, the satellite galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-24 Thomas Siegert

The spectrum and morphology of gamma-rays from the Galactic Center and the spectrum of synchrotron emission observed from the Milky Way's radio filaments have each been interpreted as possible signals of $\sim$7-10 GeV dark matter particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Dan Hooper , Wei Xue

There is a robust signal for a 511 keV photon line from the galactic center which may originate from dark matter particles with masses of a few MeV. To avoid the bounds from delayed recombination and from the absence of the line from dwarf…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-09 Yasaman Farzan , Meshkat Rajaee

We study scalar and fermionic crossing two-component dark matter (C2CDM) models with $ U(1)_X $ dark gauge symmetry. This $ U(1)_X $ gauge symmetry is broken via the dark Higgs mechanism of a dark Higgs field $\Phi$ and the dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-28 P. Ko , Chih-Ting Lu , Ui Min

The morphology and characteristics of the so-called GeV gamma-ray excess detected in the Milky Way lead us to speculate about a possible common origin with the 511 keV line mapped by the SPI experiment about ten years ago. In the previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-05 Celine Boehm , Paolo Gondolo , Pierre Jean , Thomas Lacroix , Colin Norman , Joseph Silk

The observed angular profile of the 511-keV photon excess from the Milky Way galactic center can allow us to select among combinations of various dark matter and other positron production mechanisms with various models for the dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-07-12 Zainul Abidin , Andrei Afanasev , Carl E. Carlson

Feebly interacting particles with masses with O(10-100) MeV can be copiously produced by core-collapse supernovae (SNe). In this paper we consider the case of MeV-ish sterile neutrinos and dark photons mixed with ordinary neutrinos and…

The excess of the 511 keV line from the Milky Way galactic bulge, confirmed by the INTEGRAL detector, is a longstanding mystery. The morphology of the line appears to be proportional to the square of the dark matter density, hinting towards…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-15 Yasaman Farzan

We propose models of Dark Matter that account for the 511 keV photon emission from the Galactic Centre, compatibly with experimental constraints and theoretical consistency, and where the relic abundance is achieved via p-wave annihilations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-02 Yohei Ema , Filippo Sala , Ryosuke Sato

We propose a possible explanation for the recently observed anomalous 511 keV line with a new "millicharged" fermion. This new fermion is light [${\cal O}({\rm MeV})$]. Nevertheless, it has never been observed by any collider experiments by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Ji-Haeng Huh , Jihn E. Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seong Chan Park