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Cosmological simulations for cold dark matter (DM) indicate that a large number of streams might exist in our Galaxy. The present work incorporates gravitational focusing (GF) effects on streaming DM constituents by the Sun and the Earth…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Abaz Kryemadhi , Marios Maroudas , Andreas Mastronikolis , Konstantin Zioutas

Various theories of dark matter predict distinctive astrophysical signatures in gravitational-wave sources that could be observed by ground- and space-based laser interferometers. Different candidates-including axions, dark photons,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-01 Andrew L. Miller

Cosmic ray antiprotons have been detected for over 20 years and are now measured reliably. Standard particle and astrophysics predict a conventional spectrum and abundance of secondary antiprotons consistent with all current measurements.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Dallas C. Kennedy

Interstellar antiproton fluxes can arise from dark matter annihilating or decaying into quarks or gluons that subsequently fragment into antiprotons. Evaporation of primordial black holes also can produce a significant antiproton cosmic-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 James D. Wells , Alexander Moiseev , Jonathan F. Ormes

It has been long discussed that cosmic rays may contain signals of dark matter. In the last couple of years an anomaly of cosmic-ray positrons has drawn a lot of attentions, and recently an excess in cosmic-ray anti-proton has been reported…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

We show that the flux of the high-energy cosmic ray positrons observed near Earth is that expected from the decay of mesons produced by the primary cosmic rays (CRs) in the local interstellar medium.

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-16 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar

Dark matter candidates such as weakly-interacting massive particles are predicted to annihilate or decay into Standard Model particles leaving behind distinctive signatures in gamma rays, neutrinos, positrons, antiprotons, or even…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-01 Jan Conrad , Olaf Reimer

If dark matter decays into electrons and positrons, it can affect Galactic radio emissions and the local cosmic ray fluxes. We propose a new, more general analysis of constraints on dark matter. The constraints can be obtained for any…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-28 Le Zhang , Javier Redondo , Guenter Sigl

We study how gravitational focusing (GF) of dark matter by the Sun affects the annual and biannual modulation of the expected signal in non-directional direct dark matter searches, in the presence of dark matter substructure in the local…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-09 Eugenio Del Nobile , Graciela B. Gelmini , Samuel J. Witte

In recent years, a number of experiments have been conducted with the goal of studying cosmic rays at GeV to TeV energies. This is a particularly interesting regime from the perspective of indirect dark matter detection. To draw reliable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-05 Melanie Simet , Dan Hooper

We investigate dark matter (DM) interactions via spectroscopic signatures of energy injection in planetary environments. We develop a general framework to account for how DM energy injection signals depend on the DM spatial distribution,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-05 Carlos Blanco , Rebecca K. Leane , Marianne Moore , Joshua Tong

In this paper we review the search for astrophysical neutrinos. We begin by summarizing the various theoretical predictions which correlate the expected neutrino flux with data from other messengers, specifically gammas and ultra-high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-18 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Teresa Montaruli

A series of experiments measuring high-energy cosmic rays have recently reported strong indications for the existence of an excess of high-energy electrons and positrons. If interpreted in terms of the decay of dark matter particles, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran , Christoph Weniger

The nature of dark matter is one of the most pressing questions in modern cosmology. Much work has been focussed in the past upon probing potential particle dark matter via gamma-rays resulting from its annihilation or decay. These processs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-09 Geoff Beck

The observed anomalous excess of high-energy cosmic ray (CR) positrons is widely discussed as possible indirect evidence for dark matter (DM). However, any source of cosmic positrons is inevitably the source of gamma radiation. The least…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-14 Konstantin M. Belotsky , Airat Kh. Kamaletdinov , Ekaterina S. Shlepkina , Maxim L. Solovyov

The main alternatives of the recent XENON1T observation are solar axions, neutrino magnetic moment and tritium. In this short note we suggest to crosscheck whether the observation is related or not to dark matter (DM) streams, by searching…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 K. Zioutas , G. Cantatore , M. Karuza , A. Kryemadhi , M. Maroudas , Y. K. Semertzidis

Dark matter annihilating in our Galaxy's halo and elsewhere in the universe is expected to generate a diffuse flux of gamma rays, potentially observable with next generation satellite-based experiments, such as GLAST. In this article, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dan Hooper , Pasquale D. Serpico

Planetary effects have been attributed to biological processes without scientific rigor. Some generic invisible slow matter from the dark Universe in the form of streams or clusters with occasional large flux enhancements due to planetary…

We investigate the neutrino - cosmic ray connection for sources in the Galaxy in terms of two observables: the shape of the energy spectrum and the distribution of arrival directions. We also study the associated gamma ray emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Haim Goldberg , Angela V. Olinto , Thomas C. Paul , Brian J. Vlcek , Thomas J. Weiler

The search for antideuterons in cosmic rays has been proposed as a promising channel for dark matter indirect detection, especially for dark matter particles with a low or intermediate mass. With the current operational phase of the AMS-02…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-26 N. Fornengo , L. Maccione , A. Vittino