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We study spectral features in the gamma-ray emission from dark matter (DM) annihilation in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), with either neutralino or right-handed (RH) sneutrino DM. We perform a series of scans…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-07 D. G. Cerdeno , M. Peiro , S. Robles

Annihilating dark matter (DM) models offer promising avenues for future DM detection, in particular via modification of astrophysical signals. However when modelling such potential signals at high redshift the emergence of both dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Sarah Schon , Katherine J. Mack , Stuart B. Wyithe

About a third of the $\gamma$-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) remain unidentified, and some of these could be exotic objects such as dark matter subhalos. We present a search for these sources using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Anja Butter , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi , Kathrin Nippel

An upper limit on the total annihilation cross section of dark matter (DM) has recently been derived from the observed atmospheric neutrino background. We show that comparable bounds are obtained for DM masses around the TeV scale by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Kachelriess , P. D. Serpico

We assess Galactic Dark Matter (DM) sensitivities to photons from annihilation and decay using the spatial and kinematic information determined by state-of-the-art simulations in the Latte suite of Feedback In Realistic Environments…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Dawei Zhong , Mauro Valli , Kevork N. Abazajian

On the time-varying channel estimation, the traditional downlink (DL) channel restoration schemes usually require the reconstruction for the covariance of downlink process noise vector, which is dependent on DL channel covariance matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Muye Li , Shun Zhang , Nan Zhao , Weile Zhang , Xianbin Wang

The particle nature of dark matter remains a mystery. In this paper, we consider two dark matter models---Late Forming Dark Matter (LFDM) and Ultra-Light Axion (ULA) models---where the matter power spectra show novel effects on small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-12 Abir Sarkar , Rajesh Mondal , Subinoy Das , Shiv. K. Sethi , Somnath Bharadwaj , David J. E. Marsh

The Fermi LAT collaboration has recently presented constraints on the gamma-ray signal from annihilating dark matter using separate analyses of a number of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Since the expected annihilation signal has the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-01 Maja Llena Garde

Indirect searches for dark matter through Standard Model products of its annihilation generally assume a cross-section which is dominated by a term independent of velocity ($s$-wave annihilation). However, in many DM models an $s$-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Christian Johnson , Regina Caputo , Chris Karwin , Simona Murgia , Steve Ritz , Jessie Shelton

We present the first joint analysis of gamma-ray data from the MAGIC Cherenkov telescopes and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) to search for gamma-ray signals from dark matter annihilation in dwarf satellite galaxies. We combine 158…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 M. L. Ahnen , S. Ansoldi , L. A. Antonelli , P. Antoranz , A. Babic , B. Banerjee , P. Bangale , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , J. Becerra González , W. Bednarek , E. Bernardini , B. Biasuzzi , A. Biland , O. Blanch , S. Bonnefoy , G. Bonnoli , F. Borracci , T. Bretz , E. Carmona , A. Carosi , A. Chatterjee , R. Clavero , P. Colin , E. Colombo , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , S. Covino , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , B. De Lotto , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , C. Delgado Mendez , F. Di Pierro , D. , Dominis Prester , D. Dorner , M. Doro , S. Einecke , D. Eisenacher Glawion , D. Elsaesser , A. Fernández-Barral , D. Fidalgo , M. V. Fonseca , L. Font , K. Frantzen , C. Fruck , D. Galindo , R. J. García López , M. Garczarczyk , D. Garrido Terrats , M. Gaug , P. Giammaria , N. Godinović , A. González Muñoz , D. Guberman , A. Hahn , Y. Hanabata , M. Hayashida , J. Herrera , J. Hose , D. Hrupec , G. Hughes , W. Idec , K. Kodani , Y. Konno , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , A. La Barbera , D. Lelas , E. Lindfors , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , M. López , R. López-Coto , A. López-Oramas , E. Lorenz , P. Majumdar , M. Makariev , K. Mallot , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , K. Mannheim , L. Maraschi , B. Marcote , M. Mariotti , M. Martínez , D. Mazin , U. Menzel , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , A. Moralejo , E. Moretti , D. Nakajima , V. Neustroev , A. Niedzwiecki , M. Nievas Rosillo , K. Nilsson , K. Nishijima , K. Noda , R. Orito , A. Overkemping , S. Paiano , J. Palacio , M. Palatiello , D. Paneque , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , X. Paredes-Fortuny , M. Persic , J. Poutanen , P. G. Prada Moroni , E. Prandini , I. Puljak , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , J. Rico , J. Rodriguez Garcia , T. Saito , K. Satalecka , C. Schultz , T. Schweizer , S. N. Shore , A. Sillanpää , J. Sitarek , I. Snidaric , D. Sobczynska , A. Stamerra , T. Steinbring , M. Strzys , L. Takalo , H. Takami , F. Tavecchio , P. Temnikov , T. Terzić , D. Tescaro , M. Teshima , J. Thaele , D. F. Torres , T. Toyama , A. Treves , V. Verguilov , I. Vovk , J. E. Ward , M. Will , M. H. Wu , R. Zanin , J. Aleksić , M. Wood , B. Anderson , E. D. Bloom , J. Cohen-Tanugi , A. Drlica-Wagner , M. N. Mazziotta , M. Sánchez-Conde , L. Strigari

We baseline with current cosmological observations to forecast the power of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in two ways: 1. the gain in constraining power of parameter combinations in the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, and 2.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Samuel Goldstein , Minsu Park , Marco Raveri , Bhuvnesh Jain , Lado Samushia

Dark matter particle annihilation or decay can produce monochromatic gamma-ray lines and contribute to the diffuse gamma-ray background. Flux upper limits are presented for gamma-ray spectral lines from 7 to 200 GeV and for the diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 LAT Collaboration , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , L. Baldini , G. Barbiellini , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , M. Brigida , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , F. D'Ammando , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , Y. Edmonds , R. Essig , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , D. Horan , R. E. Hughes , T. Kamae , J. Knödlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , A. M. Lionetto , M. Llena Garde , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , A. A. Moiseev , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , M. Naumann-Godo , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , A. Okumura , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , J. H. Panetta , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. A. Porter , D. Prokhorov , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , O. Reimer , M. Roth , C. Sbarra , J. D. Scargle , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , A. Snyder , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vasileiou , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , Z. Yang , S. Zimmer

Searches for "dark" subhaloes in gamma-ray point-like source catalogues are among promising strategies for indirect dark matter detection. Such a search is nevertheless affected by uncertainties related, on the one hand, to the modelling of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-12 Francesca Calore , Moritz Hütten , Martin Stref

The interpretation of data from indirect detection experiments searching for dark matter annihilations requires computationally expensive simulations of cosmic-ray propagation. In this work we present a new method based on Recurrent Neural…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-21 Felix Kahlhoefer , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi , Kathrin Nippel

Recent high-energy data from Fermi-LAT on the diffuse gamma-ray background have been used to set among the best constraints on annihilating TeV cold dark matter candidates. In order to assess the robustness of these limits, we revisit and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-08 Moritz Hütten , Céline Combet , David Maurin

Evidence for an excess of gamma rays with O(GeV) energy coming from the center of our galaxy has been steadily accumulating over the past several years. Recent studies of the excess in data from the Fermi telescope have cast doubt on an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Seyda Ipek , David McKeen , Ann E. Nelson

Searches for annihilating dark matter are often designed with a specific dark matter candidate in mind. However, the space of potential dark matter models is vast, which raises the question: how can we search for dark matter without making…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Liam Pinchbeck , Csaba Balazs , Eric Thrane

The very large (100-1000) mass-to-light ratio applicable to the ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) implies a high concentration of dark matter, thus rendering them ideal theatres for indirect signatures of dark matter. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-12 Pooja Bhattacharjee , Debajyoti Choudhury , Kasinath Das , Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Pratik Majumdar

We consider a simplified model of fermionic dark matter which couples exclusively to the right-handed top quark via a renormalizable interaction with a color-charged scalar. We first compute the relic abundance of this type of dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 M. A. Gomez , C. B. Jackson , G. Shaughnessy

The Milky Way (MW) dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are particularly intriguing targets to search for gamma rays from Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay. They are nearby,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-10 Alex McDaniel , Marco Ajello , Christopher M. Karwin , Mattia Di Mauro , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde