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Recent COMPTEL data analysis reveals a $\sim$ 2 MeV continuum excess whose spatial distribution closely matches the long-standing 511 keV line observed by INTEGRAL/SPI, indicating a common population of low-energy positrons that is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-16 Shyam Balaji , Damon Cleaver , Pedro De la Torre Luque

In single-component theories of dark matter, the $2\to 2$ amplitudes for dark-matter production, annihilation, and scattering can be related to each other through various crossing symmetries. These crossing relations lie at the heart of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Keith R. Dienes , Jason Kumar , Brooks Thomas , David Yaylali

Utilizing an exhaustive set of simplified models, we revisit dark matter scenarios potentially capable of generating the observed Galactic Center gamma-ray excess, updating constraints from the LUX and PandaX-II experiments, as well as from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-21 Miguel Escudero , Dan Hooper , Samuel J. Witte

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) mission revealed a break in the spectrum of cosmic-ray electons and positrons. This is associated with an excess above the expected backgrounds at energies around 1 TeV. Several authors have argued…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-21 Geoff Beck , Sergio Colafrancesco

This paper reports that the X-ray spectrum from the Galactic Center X-ray Emission (GCXE) is expressed by the assembly of active binaries, non-magnetic Cataclysmic Variables, magnetic Cataclysmic Variables (X-ray active star: XAS), cold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-01 Masayoshi Nobukawa , Katsuji Koyama

We demonstrate that the anomalous ionization rate observed in the Central Molecular Zone can be attributed to MeV dark matter annihilations into $e^+e^-$ pairs for galactic dark matter profiles with slopes $\gamma>1$. The low annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-19 Pedro De la Torre Luque , Shyam Balaji , Joseph Silk

Recently, some very tight constraints of annihilating dark matter have been obtained from gamma-ray data of the Milky Way and Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies. In this article, we report that there are two excellent galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Man Ho Chan , Chung Hei Leung

We study the relic abundance of several stable particles from a generic dark sector, including the possible presence of dark asymmetries. After discussing the different possibilities for stabilising multi-component dark matter, we analyse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-20 Arnau Bas i Beneito , Juan Herrero-García , Drona Vatsyayan

The presence of dark matter (DM) is suggested by a wealth of astrophysical and cosmological measurements. However, its underlying nature is yet unknown. Among the most promising candidates are weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs):…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 A. Montanari , E. Moulin , D. Malyshev

We infer dark matter properties from gamma ray residuals extracted using eight different interstellar emission scenarios proposed by the Fermi-LAT Collaboration to explain the Galactic Center gamma ray excess. Adopting the most plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li

It was recently argued by Hooper and Goodenough [arXiv:1010.2752] that the excess gamma ray emission from within 1-2 degrees of the galactic center can be well-described by annihilation of ~8 GeV dark matter particles into tau pairs. I show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-21 Heather E. Logan

The public data from the EGRET space telescope on diffuse galactic gamma rays in the energy range from 0.1 to 10 GeV show an excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. This excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. de Boer

Fermi-LAT has confirmed the excess in cosmic positron fraction observed by PAMELA, which could be explained by dark matter annihilating or decaying in the center of the galaxy. Most existing models postulate that the dark matter annihilates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Hsin-Chia Cheng , Wei-Chih Huang , Ian Low , Gabe Shaughnessy

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

Thermal relic dark matter particles with a mass of 31-40 GeV and that dominantly annihilate to bottom quarks have been shown to provide an excellent description of the excess gamma rays observed from the center of the Milky Way. Flavored…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-17 Prateek Agrawal , Brian Batell , Dan Hooper , Tongyan Lin

There is growing evidence that the Galactic Center Excess identified in the $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT gamma-ray data arises from a population of faint astrophysical sources. We provide compelling supporting evidence by showing that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-23 Oscar Macias , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Manoj Kaplinghat , Chris Gordon , Roland M. Crocker , David M. Nataf

The nature of Dark Matter (DM) remains one of the most important unresolved questions of fundamental physics. Many models, including Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), assume DM to be a particle and predict a weak coupling with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-26 Giovanni Renzi

Gamma-ray observations of the Galactic Center (GC) region provide some of the most sensitive measurements of annihilation signals from dark matter in the GeV-TeV mass range. We present the first results from 178 hours of VERITAS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 James L Ryan

[Abridged] Indirect detection of dark matter (DM) by multi-wavelength astronomical observations provides a promising avenue for probing the particle nature of DM. In the case of DM consisting of Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Alex McDaniel , Tesla Jeltema , Stefano Profumo

Even though there are strong astrophysical and cosmological indications to support the existence of dark matter, its exact nature remains unknown. We expect dark matter to produce standard model particles when annihilating or decaying,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-24 Nadège Iovine , Juan A. Aguilar