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We propose the first method for water Cherenkov detectors to constrain GeV-scale dark matter (DM) below the solar evaporation mass. While previous efforts have highlighted the Sun and Earth as DM capture targets, we demonstrate that Jupiter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 Sandra Robles , Stephan A. Meighen-Berger

Over the past decade, extensive studies have been undertaken to search for photon signals from dark matter annihilation or decay for dark matter particle masses above $\sim1$ GeV. However, due to the lacking sensitivity of current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-09 Richard Bartels , Daniele Gaggero , Christoph Weniger

We compute the projected sensitivity to dark matter (DM) particles in the sub-GeV mass range of future direct detection experiments using germanium and silicon semiconductor targets. We perform this calculation within the dark photon model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-03 Erik Andersson , Alex Bökmark , Riccardo Catena , Timon Emken , Henrik Klein Moberg , Emil Åstrand

We present the first observational limits on the predicted synchrotron signals from particle Dark Matter annihilation models in dwarf spheroidal galaxies at radio frequencies below 1 GHz. We use a combination of survey data from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Arpan Kar , Sourav Mitra , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Steven Tingay

We propose and study a new class of superconducting detectors which are sensitive to O(meV) electron recoils from dark matter-electron scattering. Such devices could detect dark matter as light as the warm dark matter limit, mX > keV. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-13 Yonit Hochberg , Yue Zhao , Kathryn M. Zurek

In the past few years, many mesoscale systems have been proposed as possible detectors of sub-GeV dark matter particles. In this work, we point out the feasibility of probing dark matter-nucleon scattering cross section using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-15 Anirban Das , Noah Kurinsky , Rebecca K. Leane

It has been suggested ``that DM particles are strongly interacting composite macroscopically large objects ... made of well known light quarks (or ... antiquarks)." In doing so it is argued that these compact composite objects (CCOs) are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel T. Cumberbatch , Glenn D. Starkman , Joseph Silk

The Sun is a promising target for dark matter (DM) searches due to its ability to accumulate DM particles via scattering and catalyze their self-annihilation. However, at low DM masses, DM particles can also "evaporate" due to subsequent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-05 Thong T. Q. Nguyen , Tim Linden

We conduct a comprehensive analysis of potential annihilation processes of light dark matter (DM) in minimal Higgs portal models near supermassive black hole (Sgr A$^{\star}$) in the Galactic Center, considering interactions between DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Chih-Ting Lu , Xiao-Yi Luo , Zi-Qing Xia

Direct and indirect dark matter searches can potentially lead to the discovery of Supersymmetry. In the specific context of heterotic orbifold compactification scenarios, it is even possible to get some clues on the SUSY breaking mechanism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 G. Bertone , P. Binetruy , Y. Mambrini , E. Nezri

We propose to use high-purity lab-grown diamond for the detection of sub-GeV dark matter. Diamond targets can be sensitive to both nuclear and electron recoils from dark matter scattering in the MeV and above mass range, as well as to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-19 Noah Kurinsky , To Chin Yu , Yonit Hochberg , Blas Cabrera

In the past decade, gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we suggest another robust way to constrain the parameters of dark matter annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Man Ho Chan

The particle nature of dark matter (DM) has been a long-lasting mystery. Many models suggest that DM could decay or self annihilate into standard model particles, and thus could be a source of gamma rays in the sky. The High Altitude Water…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-15 Dylan M. H. Leung , Kenny C. Y. Ng

An excess of $\sim$10-20 GeV cosmic-ray antiprotons has been identified in the spectrum reported by the AMS-02 Collaboration. The systematic uncertainties associated with this signal, however, have made it difficult to interpret these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-20 Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden , Dan Hooper

We show that Milky Way white dwarfs are excellent targets for dark matter (DM) detection. Using Fermi and H.E.S.S. Galactic center gamma-ray data, we investigate sensitivity to DM annihilating within white dwarfs into long-lived or boosted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-05 Javier F. Acevedo , Rebecca K. Leane , Lillian Santos-Olmsted

Identifying the nature of dark matter (DM) has long been a pressing question for particle physics. In the face of ever-more-powerful exclusions and null results from large-exposure searches for TeV-scale DM interacting with nuclei, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-31 Yonatan Kahn , Tongyan Lin

The ionization signal provide an important avenue of detecting light dark matter. In this work, we consider the sub-GeV inelastic dark matter and use the non-relativistic effective field theory (NR-EFT) to derive the constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-13 Jiwei Li , Liangliang Su , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

Dark matter with mass below about a GeV is essentially unobservable in conventional direct detection experiments. However, newly proposed technology will allow the detection of single electron events in semiconductor materials with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-13 Peter W. Graham , David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran , Matthew T. Walters

M87 is the first extragalactic source detected in the TeV range that is not a blazar. With the increasing performances of ground-based Cherenkov telescopes, we can now probe the variability in the gamma-ray flux at small timescales, thus…

The nature of Dark Matter (DM) is one of the most debated questions of contemporary physics. Ground-based arrays of Cherenkov telescopes such as the High Energy Spectroscopic System (H.E.S.S.) search for DM signatures through the detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Lucia Rinchiuso , H. E. S. S. Collaboration