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Dark matter particle annihilation or decay can produce monochromatic gamma-ray lines and contribute to the diffuse gamma-ray background. Flux upper limits are presented for gamma-ray spectral lines from 7 to 200 GeV and for the diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 LAT Collaboration , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , L. Baldini , G. Barbiellini , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , M. Brigida , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , F. D'Ammando , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , Y. Edmonds , R. Essig , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , D. Horan , R. E. Hughes , T. Kamae , J. Knödlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , A. M. Lionetto , M. Llena Garde , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , A. A. Moiseev , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , M. Naumann-Godo , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , A. Okumura , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , J. H. Panetta , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. A. Porter , D. Prokhorov , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , O. Reimer , M. Roth , C. Sbarra , J. D. Scargle , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , A. Snyder , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vasileiou , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , Z. Yang , S. Zimmer

It has recently been pointed out that the 511 keV emission line detected by Integral/SPI from the bulge of our galaxy could be explained by annihilations of light Dark Matter particles into e^+ e^-. If such a signature is confirmed, then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-20 C. Boehm , P. Fayet , J. Silk

We analyze the effects of capture of dark matter (DM) particles, with successive annihilations, predicted in the minimal walking technicolor model (MWT) by the Sun and the Earth. We show that the Super-Kamiokande (SK) upper limit on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Konstantin Belotsky , Maxim Khlopov , Chris Kouvaris

Some recent studies have examined the gamma-ray flux profile of our Galaxy to determine the signal of dark matter annihilation. However, the results are controversial and no confirmation is obtained. In this article, we study the radio flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-13 Man Ho Chan , Chu Fai Yeung , Lang Cui , Chun Sing Leung

Annihilation of dark matter particles accumulated in the Sun would produce a flux of high-energy neutrinos whose prospects of detection in neutrino telescopes and detectors have been extensively discussed in the literature. However, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Nicolas Bernal , Justo Martin-Albo , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes, including HESS and MAGIC, have detected a spectrum of gamma-rays from the galactic center region which extends from $\sim$200 GeV or lower, to at least $\sim$10 TeV. Although the source of this radiation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Dan Hooper

It has been shown that the gamma-ray flux observed by HESS from the J1745-290 Galactic Center source is well fitted as the secondary gamma-rays photons generated from Dark Matter annihilating into Standard Model particles in combination…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-25 Viviana Gammaldi

Annihilation of dark matter can result in the production of stable Standard Model particles including electrons and positrons that, in the presence of magnetic fields, lose energy via synchrotron radiation, observable as radio emission.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Emma Storm , Tesla E. Jeltema , Stefano Profumo , Lawrence Rudnick

Precise measurements of spectra of cosmic ray electrons and positrons can effectively probe the nature of dark matter (DM) particles. In a class of models where DM particles initially annihilate into a pair of intermediate particles which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Lei Zu , Cun Zhang , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

Dark Matter (DM) may be a thermal relic that annihilates into heavier states in the early Universe. This Forbidden DM framework accommodates a wide range of DM masses from keV to weak scales. An exponential hierarchy between the DM mass and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-13 Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Joshua T. Ruderman

We consider the search for gamma-rays produced by the annihilation or decay of low-mass dark matter which couples to quarks. In this scenario, most of the photons are produced from the decays of $\pi^0$ or $\eta$ mesons. These decays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-20 J. G. Christy , Jason Kumar , Arvind Rajaraman

The gamma-ray annihilation and decay products of very heavy dark matter particles can undergo attenuation through pair production, leading to the development of electromagnetic cascades. This has a significant impact not only on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-16 Carlos Blanco , J. Patrick Harding , Dan Hooper

The public data from the EGRET space telescope on diffuse Galactic gamma rays in the energy range from 0.1 to 10 GeV are reanalyzed with the purpose of searching for signals of Dark Matter annihilation (DMA). The analysis confirms the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. de Boer , C. Sander , V. Zhukov , A. V. Gladyshev , D. I. Kazakov

The excess above 1 GeV in the energy spectrum of the diffuse Galactic gamma radiation, measured with the EGRET experiment, can be interpreted as the annihilation of Dark Matter (DM) particles. The DM is distributed in a halo around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 Markus Weber

Galactic weak-scale Dark Matter (DM) particles annihilating into lepton-rich channels not only produce gamma-rays via prompt radiation but also generate abundant energetic electrons and positrons, which subsequently emit through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-09 Marco Cirelli , Arpan Kar

Thermal dark matter at the MeV scale faces stringent bounds from a variety of cosmological probes. Here we perform a detailed evaluation of BBN bounds on the annihilation cross section of dark matter with a mass $1\,\text{MeV} \lesssim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-10 Paul Frederik Depta , Marco Hufnagel , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Sebastian Wild

We calculate the scattering rate of sub-GeV dark matter in solid-state targets for spin-dependent dark matter -- nucleon interactions. For dark matter particles with mass below 100 MeV, the scattering occurs predominantly through incoherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-16 Stefania Gori , Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Pankaj Munbodh , Bethany Suter

In this paper we consider dark matter particle annihilation in the gravitational field of black holes. We obtain exact distribution function of the infalling dark matter particles, and compute the resulting flux and spectra of gamma rays…

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

We reexamine the limits on charged dark matter particles. We show that if their mass and charge fall in the range 100(q_X/e)^2< m_X < 10^8(q_X/e) TeV, then magnetic fields prevent particles in the halo from entering the galactic disk, while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Leonid Chuzhoy , Edward W. Kolb

We test the luminosity function of Milky Way satellites as a constraint for the nature of Dark Matter particles. We perform dissipationless high-resolution N-body simulations of the evolution of Galaxy-sized halo in the standard Cold Dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Andrea V. Maccio' , Fabio Fontanot