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Very high energy gamma-rays probe the long-standing mystery of the origin of cosmic rays. Produced in the interactions of accelerated particles in astrophysical objects, they can be used to image cosmic particle accelerators. A first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 F. A. Aharonian

It is shown that the acceleration of particles by a powerful relativistic jet associated with the activity of a supermassive black hole in the Galactic center several million years ago may explain the observed cosmic ray spectrum at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-05 V. N. Zirakashvili , V. S. Ptuskin , S. I. Rogovaya

Cosmic rays are charged relativistic particles that reach the Earth with extremely high energies, providing striking evidence of the existence of effective accelerators in the Universe. Below an energy around $\sim 10^{17}$ eV cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Giovanni Morlino

We study gamma ray and positron in high energy cosmic ray from the decay of the gravitino dark matter in the framework of supersymmetric model with R-parity violation. Even though R-parity is violated, the lifetime of the gravitino, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-20 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

Recent reports of a gamma-ray line feature at ~130 GeV in data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope have generated a great deal of interest in models in which dark matter particles annihilate with a sizable cross section to final states…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Matthew R. Buckley , Dan Hooper

Very high energy {\gamma}-rays are one of the most important messengers of the non-thermal Universe. The major motivation of very high energy {\gamma}-ray astronomy is to find sources of high energy cosmic rays. Several astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 D. Bose , V. R. Chitnis , P. Majumdar , A. Shukla

A large fraction of the recently discovered Galactic Very High Energy (VHE) source population remains unidentified to date. VHE gamma-ray emission traces high energy particles in these sources, but for example in case of hadronic processes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gerd Pühlhofer

The nature of the cosmic dark matter is unknown. The most compelling hypothesis is that dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the 100 GeV mass range. Such particles would annihilate in the galactic halo,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Edward A. Baltz , James E. Taylor , Lawrence L. Wai

The origin of the highest energy cosmic rays is still unknown. The discovery of their sources will reveal the workings of the most energetic astrophysical accelerators in the universe. Current observations show a spectrum consistent with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Kumiko Kotera , Angela V. Olinto

Cosmic rays reaching the atmosphere of an astrophysical object produce showers of secondary particles that may then escape into space. Here we obtain the flux of gamma rays and neutrinos of energy $E>10$ GeV emitted by the Sun, Jupiter and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 Pablo de la Torre , Miguel Gutiérrez , Manuel Masip , Alejandro Oliver

Cosmic ray particles with energies in excess of 10**(20) eV have been detected. The sources as well as the physical mechanism(s) responsible for endowing cosmic ray particles with such enormous energies are unknown. This report gives a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Pijushpani Bhattacharjee , Guenter Sigl

The gamma-ray fluxes observed by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) from the J1745-290 Galactic Center source is well fitted by the secondary photons coming from Dark Matter (DM) annihilation in particle-antiparticle standard model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-31 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Viviana Gammaldi , Antonio L. Maroto

Dark matter particles need not be completely stable, and in fact they may be decaying now. We consider this possibility in the frameworks of universal extra dimensions and supersymmetry with very late decays of WIMPs to Kaluza-Klein…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Jonathan L. Feng , Louis E. Strigari

Dark Matter annihilation (DMA) may yield an excess of gamma rays and antimatter particles, like antiprotons and positrons, above the background from cosmic ray interactions. Several signatures, ranging from the positron excess, as observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. de Boer

Clusters of galaxies and the large scale filaments that connect neighboring clusters are expected to be sites of acceleration of charged particles and sources of non-thermal radiation from radio frequencies to gamma rays. Gamma rays are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pasquale Blasi , Stefano Gabici , Gianfranco Brunetti

We briefly review sources of cosmic rays, their composition and spectra as well as their propagation in the galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields, both regular and fluctuating. A special attention is paid to the recent results of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-09 Felix Aharonian , Andrei Bykov , Etienne Parizot , Vladimir Ptuskin , Alan Watson

We investigate the possibility that ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) originate from the annihilation of relic superheavy (SH) dark matter in the Galactic halo. In order to fit the data on UHECRs, a cross section of $<\sigma_Av>\sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Pasquale Blasi , Rainer Dick , Edward W. Kolb

Here we review our current knowledge on diffuse gamma-rays from galactic halos. Estimates of the relative contribution of the various emission processes at low and high latitudes are compared to the data over 6 decades in energy. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pohl

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 study the prospects for detecting gamma-rays from decaying Dark Matter (DM), focusing in particular on gravitino DM in R-parity breaking vacua. Given the substantially different angular distribution of the predicted gamma-ray signal with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-06 Gianfranco Bertone , Wilfried Buchmuller , Laura Covi , Alejandro Ibarra