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The Galactic Center (GC) is potentially hosting the largest indirect signal from particle dark matter (DM), which in many well-motivated models would produce gamma rays as their final states. However, this region has often been dismissed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Silvia Manconi , Christopher Eckner , Francesca Calore , Fiorenza Donato

We consider a simple extension of the type-II two-Higgs-doublet model by introducing a real scalar as a candidate for dark matter in the present Universe. The main annihilation mode of the dark matter particle with a mass of around $31-40$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-30 Nobuchika Okada , Osamu Seto

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) remains an enduring mystery, with leading explanations being annihilating dark matter or an unresolved population of millisecond pulsars. Analyzing the morphology of the GCE provides critical clues to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-13 Yi-Ming Zhong , Ilias Cholis

The Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) has been one of the most attractive candidates for Dark Matter (DM), and the lightest neutralino ($\widetilde{\chi}^0_1$) in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) is an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Liangliang Shang , Yangle He , Jingwei Lian , Yusi Pan

In the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), all singlet-dominated particles including one neutralino, one CP-odd Higgs boson and one CP-even Higgs boson can be simultaneously lighter than about 100 GeV. Consequently, dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-26 Junjie Cao , Liangliang Shang , Peiwen Wu , Jin Min Yang , Yang Zhang

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) remains one of the defining mysteries uncovered by the Fermi $\gamma$-ray Space Telescope. Although it may yet herald the discovery of annihilating dark matter, weighing against that conclusion are analyses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-25 Florian List , Yujin Park , Nicholas L. Rodd , Eve Schoen , Florian Wolf

An excess of $\gamma$ rays in the data measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope in the direction of the Galactic center has been reported in several publications. This excess, labeled as the Galactic center excess (GCE), is detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Mattia Di Mauro , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

The Galactic center excess (GCE) remains one of the most intriguing discoveries from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. We revisit the characteristics of the GCE by first producing a new set of high-resolution galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-24 Ilias Cholis , Yi-Ming Zhong , Samuel D. McDermott , Joseph P. Surdutovich

Previous attempts at explaining the gamma-ray excess near the Galactic Centre have focussed on dark matter annihilation directly into Standard Model particles. This results in a preferred dark matter mass of 30-40 GeV (if the annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-30 Celine Boehm , Matthew J. Dolan , Christopher McCabe

The Fermi Collaboration has recently updated their analysis of gamma rays from the center of the Galaxy. They reconfirm the presence of an unexplained emission feature which is most prominent in the region of $1-10$ GeV, known as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-11 Abraham Achterberg , Melissa van Beekveld , Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is explained in the framework of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) with a $Z_3$ discrete symmetry. We show that a resonant CP-odd Higgs boson with mass twice that of the Dark Matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Jun Guo , Jinmian Li , Tianjun Li , Anthony G. Williams

We compare the surface brightness profile and morphology of the Galactic Centre Excess (GCE) identified in wide-angle $\gamma$-ray maps from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope to dark matter annihilation predictions derived from high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Robert J. J. Grand , Simon D. M. White

Motivated by the gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, we explore particle dark matter models that could potentially account for the spectrum and normalization of this signal. Taking a model-independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

Simple models of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) predict dark matter annihilations into pairs of electroweak gauge bosons, Higgses or tops, which through their subsequent cascade decays produce a spectrum of gamma rays.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Prateek Agrawal , Brian Batell , Patrick J. Fox , Roni Harnik

Over the past few years, there has been a hint of the $\gamma$-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT satellite borne telescope from the regions surrounding the Galactic Centre at an energy range $\sim 1$-$3$ GeV. The nature of this excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-21 Anirban Biswas

The Galactic center gamma-ray excess (GCE) is a long-standing unsolved problem. One of candidate solutions, the dark matter (DM) annihilation, has been recently tested with other astrophysical observations, such as AMS-02 electron-positron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-10 Murat Abdughani , Yi-Zhong Fan , Chih-Ting Lu , Tian-Peng Tang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

Predefined spatial templates to describe the background of $\gamma$-ray emission from astrophysical processes, like cosmic ray interactions, are used in previous searches for the $\gamma$-ray signatures of annihilating galactic dark matter.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Xiaoyuan Huang , Torsten Enßlin , Marco Selig

Recent studies of Galactic surveys, such as Gaia, have revealed that the Milky Way's gravitational potential comes from a matter distribution that is triaxial and rotated with respect to the Galactic center-Sun axis. This, in turn, could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Leo Qiyuan Hu , Ilias Cholis , Yi-Ming Zhong

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) in GeV gamma rays has been debated for over a decade, with the possibility that it might be due to dark matter annihilation or undetected point sources such as millisecond pulsars (MSPs). This study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Sascha Caron , Christopher Eckner , Luc Hendriks , Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Gabrijela Zaharijas

The particle origin of dark matter (DM) remains elusive despite decades of direct, indirect, and collider searches. Several groups have reported a $\gamma$-ray excess toward the Galactic Centre, commonly referred to as the Galactic Centre…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Jordan Koechler , Mattia Di Mauro
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