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We propose a new signature for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter, a spectral feature in the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray radiation. This feature, a sudden drop of the gamma-ray intensity at an energy corresponding to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Piero Ullio

If dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), annihilation of WIMPs in the galactic center may lead to an observable enhancement of high energy gamma ray fluxes. We predict the shape and normalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Andreas Birkedal , Konstantin T. Matchev , Maxim Perelstein , Andrew Spray

The weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) often serves as a candidate for the cold dark matter, however when produced non-thermally it could behave like warm dark matter. In this paper we study the properties of the $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 Qiang Yuan , Yixian Cao , Jie Liu , Peng-Fei Yin , Liang Gao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Xinmin Zhang

We discuss the possibility to observe the products of dark matter annihilation that was going on in the early Universe. Of all the particles that could be generated by this process we consider only photons, as they are both uncharged and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-08 Anton N. Baushev

Indirect detection of particle dark matter relies upon pair annihilation of Weakly Interaction Massive Particles (WIMPs), which is complementary to the well known techniques of direct detection (WIMP-nucleus scattering) and collider…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lawrence Wai , GLAST LAT Collaboration

We present a detailed analysis of the radio synchrotron emission induced by WIMP dark matter annihilations and decays in extragalactic halos. We compute intensity, angular correlation, and source counts and discuss the impact on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-27 N. Fornengo , R. Lineros , M. Regis , M. Taoso

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

We perform a systematic study of the multi-wavelength signal induced by weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) annihilations at the Galactic Center (GC). Referring to a generic WIMP dark matter (DM) scenario and depending on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Regis , Piero Ullio

Dark matter constitutes one of the most intriguing but so far unresolved issues in physics today. In many extensions of the Standard Model the existence of a stable Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) is predicted. The WIMP is an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Tomi Ylinen , Yvonne Edmonds , Elliott D. Bloom , Jan Conrad

In this work, we investigate dark matter (DM) detection in the context of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Upon annihilation, WIMPs generate cascades of secondary particles through various channels, many of which culminate in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Ignacio Martínez López , Rafael Alves Batista , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Antonio Juan Rubio-Montero

We explore the possible signatures of dark matter (DM) pair annihilations in the nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxy Draco. After investigating the mass models for Draco in the light of available observational data, we carefully model the DM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Colafrancesco , S. Profumo , P. Ullio

The details of what constitutes the majority of the mass that makes up dark matter in the Universe remains one of the prime puzzles of cosmology and particle physics today - eighty years after the first observational indications. Today, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 Stefan Funk

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

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) remain the strongest candidates for the dark matter in the Universe. If WIMPs are the dark matter, they will form galactic halos according to the hierarchical clustering observed in N-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Angela V. Olinto , Pasquale Blasi , Craig Tyler

We compare the measured angular cross-correlation between the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sky and catalogues of extra-galactic objects with the expected signal induced by weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM). We include a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-20 Alessandro Cuoco , Jun-Qing Xia , Marco Regis , Enzo Branchini , Nicolao Fornengo , Matteo Viel

Both cosmic shear and cosmological gamma-ray emission stem from the presence of Dark Matter (DM) in the Universe: DM structures are responsible for the bending of light in the weak lensing regime and those same objects can emit gamma-rays,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-14 S. Camera , M. Fornasa , N. Fornengo , M. Regis

As direct and indirect dark matter detection experiments continue to place stringent constraints on WIMP masses and couplings, it becomes imperative to expand the scope of the search for particle dark matter by looking in new and exotic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-09 M. A. Gomez , C. B. Jackson , G. Shaughnessy

A generic feature of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter models is the emission of photons over a broad energy band resulting from the stable yields of dark matter pair annihilation. Inverse Compton scattering off cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tesla E. Jeltema , Stefano Profumo

Heavy Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) remain a prominent yet less constrained dark matter (DM) candidate, with the Galactic Centre (GC) serving as a prime target for indirect detection via gamma-ray signals. Extending our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Rajat Shinde , Julia Djuvsland , Davide Dapaoli , Jim Hinton

The existence of predominantly cold non-baryonic dark matter is unambiguously demonstrated by several observations (e.g., structure formation, big bang nucleosynthesis, gravitational lensing, and rotational curves of spiral galaxies). A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Maurer , M. Raue , T. Kneiske , D. Elsässer , P. H. Hauschildt , D. Horns
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