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We analyse the effect of the compression of the dark matter due to the infall of baryons to the galactic center on the gamma-ray flux. In addition, we also consider the effect of non-universal supersymmetric soft terms. This analysis shows…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Mambrini

Two new observations have strengthened the case for the supersymmetric nature of the Cold Dark Matter component in our universe: First, it was shown that new data on the nuclear abundance, B/C - and 10Be/9Be ratios constrain the diffusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 W. de Boer , M. Herold , C. Sander , V. Zhukov

Dark and baryonic matter contribute comparable energy density to the present Universe. The dark matter may also be responsible for the cosmic positron/electron excesses. We connect these phenomena with Dirac seesaw for neutrino masses. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 Pei-Hong Gu , Utpal Sarkar , Xinmin Zhang

The flux of cosmic ray antiprotons from neutralino annihilations in the galactic halo is computed for a large sample of models in the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model. We also revisit the problem of estimating the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Piero Ullio

Observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) indicate an excess in gamma rays originating from the center of our Galaxy. A possible explanation for this excess is the annihilation of Dark Matter particles. We have investigated the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-19 Abraham Achterberg , Simone Amoroso , Sascha Caron , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Christoph Weniger

Assuming Galactic positrons do not go far before annhilating, a difference between the observed 511 keV annihilation flux distribution and that of positron production, expected from beta-plus decay in Galactic iron nucleosynthesis, was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-02 R. E. Lingenfelter , J. C. Higdon , R. E. Rothschild

We evaluate the antiproton--to--proton flux ratio which can be generated by neutralino--neutralino annihilation in the galactic halo, considering the most general compositions for the relic neutralinos and modelling the neutralino local…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. Bottino , C. Favero , N. Fornengo , G. Mignola

We show that the cosmic-ray positron excess measured by PAMELA and AMS could be induced by Dark Matter annihilations in a local over-density. In such a context leptophilic DM is not needed and good fits to positron data, in agreement with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Hektor , M. Raidal , A. Strumia , E. Tempel

We entertain the exotic possibility that dark matter (DM) decays or annihilations taking place in our galaxy may produce a flux of relativistic very weakly-coupled bosons, axions or dark photons. We show that there exist several upper…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Jatan Buch , Manuel A. Buen-Abad , JiJi Fan , John Shing Chau Leung

The small-scale distribution of dark matter in Galactic halos is poorly known. Several studies suggest that it could be very clumpy, which turns out to be of paramount importance when investigating the annihilation signal from exotic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-04 Julien Lavalle , Jonathan Pochon , Pierre Salati , Richard Taillet

We investigate the possibility that the antiproton-to-proton flux ratio which is measured in cosmic rays may be generated by neutralino-neutralino annihilation in the galactic halo. We study the most general compositions for the relic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 G. Mignola

Under the hypothesis of a Dark Matter composed by supersymmetric particles like neutralinos, we investigate the possibility that their annihilation in the haloes of nearby galaxies could produce detectable fluxes of $\gamma$-photons.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lidia Pieri , Enzo Branchini

We use recently released data on the positron-to-electron ratio in cosmic rays from the AMS-02 experiment to constrain dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way. Due to the yet unexplained positron excess, limits are generally weaker than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-31 Joachim Kopp

Particle dark matter near the galactic center is accreted by the central black hole into a dense spike, strongly enhancing its annihilation rate. Searching for its annihilation products may give us information on the presence or absence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Gondolo , Joseph Silk

The annihilation of neutralino dark matter in the Galactic Center (GC) may result in radio signals that can be used to detect or constrain the dark matter halo density profile or dark matter particle properties. At the Galactic Center, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Roberto Aloisio , Pasquale Blasi , Angela V. Olinto

The bulge of our Galaxy is illuminated by the 0.511 MeV gamma-ray line flux from annihilations of nonrelativistic positrons. The emission is strongly concentrated at the Galactic Center, in contrast to gamma-ray maps tracing nucleosynthesis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hasan Yuksel

We investigate if the gamma ray halo, for which recent evidence has been found in EGRET data, can be explained by neutralino annihilations in a clumpy halo. We find that the measured excess gamma ray flux can be explained through a moderate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Bergstrom , J. Edsjo , P. Ullio

It was recently proposed that stable particles of charge $-2$, $O^{--}$, can exist and constitute dark matter after they bind with primordial helium in O-helium (OHe) atoms. We study here in details the possibility that this model provides…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-22 Jean-René Cudell , Maxim Yu. Khlopov , Quentin Wallemacq

Motivated by the galactic positron excess seen by PAMELA and ATIC/PPB-BETS, we propose that dark matter is a TeV-scale particle that annihilates into a pseudoscalar "axion." The positron excess and the absence of an anti-proton or gamma ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-28 Yasunori Nomura , Jesse Thaler

We analyse the effect of the compression of the dark matter due to the infall of baryons to the galactic center on the gamma-ray flux. In addition, we also consider the effect of non-universal supersymmetric soft terms. This analysis shows…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Mambrini