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We show that, if decaying gravitino dark matter is responsible for the PAMELA and ATIC/PPB-BETS anomalies in the cosmic-ray electron and positron fluxes, both a reheating temperature and a gluino mass are constrained from above. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Koichi Hamaguchi , Fuminobu Takahashi , T. T. Yanagida

We calculate the flux of cosmic positrons from the dark matter annihilation in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity. The dark matter annihilates mainly into weak gauge bosons in the halo, and high energy positrons are produced through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaki Asano , Shigeki Matsumoto , Nobuchika Okada , Yasuhiro Okada

Energetic positrons produced in annihilation or decay of dark matter particles in the Milky Way can serve as an important indirect signature of dark matter. Computing the positron flux expected in a given dark matter model involves solving…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Maxim Perelstein , Bibhushan Shakya

The lack of evidence for weak scale supersymmetry from LHC Run-I and Run-II results along with null results from direct/indirect dark matter detection experiment have caused a paradigm shift in expected phenomenology of SUSY models. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 Hasan Serce

Phenomenology of neutralino dark matter in the minimal supersymmetric model is discussed for a scenario where the lightest Higgs boson mass is lighter than 114.4 GeV. We show that the scenario is consistent not only with many collider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaki Asano , Shigeki Matsumoto , Masato Senami , Hiroaki Sugiyama

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

Cosmic-ray positrons have long been considered a powerful probe of dark matter annihilation. In particular, myriad studies of the unexpected rise in the positron fraction have debated its dark matter or pulsar origins. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-07 Isabelle John , Tim Linden

We review severe constraints on asymmetric bosonic dark matter based on observations of old neutron stars. Under certain conditions, dark matter particles in the form of asymmetric bosonic WIMPs can be effectively trapped onto nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-15 Chris Kouvaris

We use high resolution numerical simulations of the formation of cold dark matter halos to simulate the background of decay products from neutralino annihilation, such as gamma-rays or neutrinos. Halos are non-spherical, have steep singular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos Calcaneo-Roldan , Ben Moore

Supersymmetry can explain the observed dark matter relic density with a neutralino dark matter particle and a coannihilating, almost mass-degenerate sparticle. If this were the case in nature, a linear electron positron collider like the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-29 Suvi-Leena Lehtinen , Mikael Berggren , Jenny List

We consider the effects of Galactic substructure on energetic neutrinos from annihilation of weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs) that have been captured by the Sun and Earth. Substructure gives rise to a time-varying capture rate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Savvas M. Koushiappas , Marc Kamionkowski

The continuous infall of dark matter with low velocity dispersion from all directions in a galactic halo leads to the formation of caustics which are very small scale ($\sim$parsec) high density structures. If the dark matter is made up of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Aravind Natarajan

The content of matter in the Universe is estimated to be the 27% of its critical density. It is almost universally accepted that most ot this matter is non-baryonic. Constraints from primordial nucleosynthesis and cosmic background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Bisesi , M. Mariotti , V. Scalzotto

Recent observations of the 511 keV positron-electron annihilation line in the Galactic centre region by the INTEGRAL/SPI spectrometer have stirred up new speculations about the origin of the large corresponding positron injection rate.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-14 Patrick Sizun , Michel Cassé , Stéphane Schanne , Bertrand Cordier

Assuming the lightest neutralino forms dark matter, we study its residual annihilation after freeze-out at the early universe. If taking place after the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) the annihilation products, especially at the hadronic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-04-17 Xiao-Jun Bi

We present the energy spectra of the fluxes of positrons, anti-protons and photons generated by Dark Matter annihilations in our galaxy, as univocally predicted by the model of Minimal Dark Matter. Due to multi-TeV masses and to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Cirelli , Roberto Franceschini , Alessandro Strumia

Recently published results from the PAMELA experiment have shown conclusive evidence for an excess of positrons at high (~ 10 - 100 GeV) energies, confirming earlier indications from HEAT and AMS-01. Such a signal is generally expected from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 Ilias Cholis , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Lisa Goodenough , Neal Weiner

The majority of mass in the universe has not been observed optically and is termed dark matter. The supersymmetric neutralino provides an interesting dark matter candidate, which may self-annihilate in our galaxy, producing particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-08 Gray Rybka

A recent observation of the 511 keV electron-positron annihilation line from the Galactic bulge has prompted a debate on the origin of the galactic positrons responsible for this emission. Assuming equilibrium between annihilation and…

We consider a scenario within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model extended by a singlet chiral superfield, in which neutralino dark matter annihilates to light singlet-like Higgs bosons, which proceed to decay to either…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 Dan Hooper , Tim M. P. Tait