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In the WIMP scenario, there is a one-to-one relation between the dark matter (DM) relic density and spin independent direct detection rate if both the annihilation of DM and its elastic scattering on nuclei go dominantly through Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-06 Sarah Andreas , Thomas Hambye , Michel H. G. Tytgat

We study the impact of the halo shape and geometry on the expected weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter annihilation signal from the galactic center. As the halo profile in the innermost region is still poorly constrained,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Athanassoula , F. -S. Ling , E. Nezri

We analyze the recently published Fermi-LAT diffuse gamma-ray measurements in the context of leptonically annihilating or decaying dark matter (DM) with the aim to explain simultaneously the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray and the PAMELA, Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Gert Hütsi , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

If the dark matter in the Universe is made of weakly self-interacting particles, they may self-annihilate and emit gamma-rays. We use high resolution numerical simulations to estimate directly the annihilation flux from the central regions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Felix Stoehr , Simon D. M. White , Volker Springel , Giuseppe Tormen , Naoki Yoshida

Dark Matter that is composed of WIMP remnants of incomplete particle-antiparticle annihilation in the early universe experiences ongoing annihilation in gravitationally bound large scale structure. This annihilation will have important…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lawrence M. Krauss , Glenn D. Starkman

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the best-motivated dark matter candidates. In light of no conclusive detection signal yet despite an extensive search program that combines, often in a complementary way, direct,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Giorgio Arcadi , Maíra Dutra , Pradipta Ghosh , Manfred Lindner , Yann Mambrini , Mathias Pierre , Stefano Profumo , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

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

The gamma-ray line from dark matter (DM) annihilation is too weak to observe, but its observation will uncover much information, e.g., the DM mass and an nomalously large annihilation rate $\sim0.1$ pb into di-photon. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-29 Zhaofeng Kang , Tianjun Li , Jinmian Li , Yandong Liu

We consider constraints on primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $( 10^{-18}\text{-}10^{15} )\,M_{\odot}$ if the dark matter (DM) comprises weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) which form halos around them and generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel , Luca Visinelli

The nature of the Isotropic $\gamma$-ray Background (IGRB) measured by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi $\gamma$-ray space Telescope ({\it Fermi}) remains partially unexplained. Non-negligible contributions may originate from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-05 Torsten Bringmann , Francesca Calore , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato

Annihilation of dark matter particles in cosmological halos (including a halo of the Milky Way) contributes to the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB). As this contribution will appear anisotropic in the sky, one can use the angular power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-31 Shin'ichiro Ando , Eiichiro Komatsu

Gamma rays and microwave observations of the Galactic Center and surrounding areas indicate the presence of anomalous emission, whose origin remains ambiguous. The possibility of dark matter (DM) annihilation explaining both signals through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-28 Andrey E. Egorov , Jennifer M. Gaskins , Elena Pierpaoli , Davide Pietrobon

Secluded dark matter models, in which WIMPs annihilate first into metastable mediators, can present novel indirect detection signatures in the form of gamma rays and fluxes of charged particles arriving from directions correlated with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 Brian Batell , Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz , Yanwen Shang

Several classes of astrophysical sources contribute to the approximately isotropic gamma-ray background measured by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. In this paper, we use Fermi's catalog of gamma-ray sources (along with corresponding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

We perform an indirect search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) using the MACRO detector to look for neutrino-induced upward-going muons resulting from the annihilation of WIMPs trapped in the Sun and Earth. The search is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-06 The MACRO Collaboration , M. Ambrosio et al

An interesting strategy for indirect detection of Dark Matter comes through the amounts of electrons and positrons usually emitted by DM pair annihilation. The e+e- gyrating in the galactic magnetic field then produce secondary synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-08 Enrico Borriello , Alessandro Cuoco , Gennaro Miele

We calculate the annihilation rate of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the Sun as a function of their mass and elastic scattering cross section. One byproduct of the annihilation, muon neutrinos, may be observed by the next…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-30 Annika H. G. Peter

Existence of new gauge U(1) symmetry possessed by dark matter (DM) particles implies the existence of a new Coulomb-like interaction, which leads to Sommerfeld-Gamow-Sakharov enhancement of dark matter annihilation at low relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-01 K. Belotsky , M. Khlopov , A. Kirillov

The dark matter distribution on small scales may depend on the the properties of the first generation of dark matter halos to form, which is in turn determined by the microphysics of the dark matter particles. We overview the microphysics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anne M. Green , Stefan Hofmann , Dominik J. Schwarz

Annihilation of different dark matter (DM) candidates into Standard Model (SM) particles could be detected through their contribution to the gamma ray fluxes that are measured on the Earth. The magnitude of such contributions depends on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-29 J. A. R. Cembranos , A. de la Cruz-Dombriz , A. Dobado , R. Lineros , A. L. Maroto