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A stable neutralino $\chi_1^0$, assumed to be the lightest supersymmetric particle, is a favored particle physics candidate for the cosmological Dark Matter. We study co-annihilation of the lightest neutralino with the lighter scalar top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Boehm , A. Djouadi , M. Drees

Dark matter candidates such as weakly-interacting massive particles are predicted to annihilate or decay into Standard Model particles leaving behind distinctive signatures in gamma rays, neutrinos, positrons, antiprotons, or even…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-01 Jan Conrad , Olaf Reimer

Dark matter annihilation is proportional to the square of the density and is especially efficient in places of highest concentration of dark matter, such as dark matter spikes. The spikes are formed as a result of contraction of the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-27 Alexander Belikov , Joseph Silk

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

Using the bimetric formalism, we compute the production and emission rates of light spin-2 particles in non-degenerate stellar interiors through photoproduction and bremsstrahlung processes, including the effects of plasma screening. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Camilo García-Cely , Andreas Ringwald

We explore theories of dark matter in which dark matter annihilations produce mono-energetic gamma rays ("lines") in the context of effective field theory, which captures the physics for cases in which the particles mediating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-03 Arvind Rajaraman , Tim M. P. Tait , Alexander M. Wijangco

The inert Higgs doublet model contains a stable neutral boson as a candidate of dark matter. We calculate cross section for spin-independent scattering of the dark matter on nucleon. We take into account electroweak and scalar quartic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-20 Tomohiro Abe , Ryosuke Sato

Taking into account spins, we classify all two-body non-relativistic Dark Matter annihilation channels to the allowed polarization states of Standard Model particles, computing the energy spectra of the stable final-state particles relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-07 Marco Cirelli , Mario Kadastik , Martti Raidal , Alessandro Strumia

Weakly coupled, almost massless, spin 0 particles have been predicted by many extensions of the standard model of particle physics. Recently, the PVLAS group observed a rotation of polarization of electromagnetic waves in vacuum in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Avijit K. Ganguly , Pankaj Jain , Subhayan Mandal , Sarah Stokes

We perform an analysis of the simplified dark matter models in the light of cosmic ray observables by AMS-02 and Fermi-LAT. We assume fermion, scalar or vector dark matter particle with a leptophobic spin-0 mediator that couples only to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Tong Li

We explore the feasibility and astrophysical consequences of a new long-range U(1) gauge field ("dark electromagnetism") that couples only to dark matter, not to the Standard Model. The dark matter consists of an equal number of positive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Lotty Ackerman , Matthew R. Buckley , Sean M. Carroll , Marc Kamionkowski

We investigate the prospects of detecting weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter by measuring the contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray radiation induced, in any dark matter halo and at all redshifts, by WIMP pair…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Piero Ullio , Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Cedric Lacey

We propose that dark matter is composed of particles that naturally have the correct thermal relic density, but have neither weak-scale masses nor weak interactions. These WIMPless models emerge naturally from gauge-mediated supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-10 Jonathan L. Feng , Jason Kumar

We suggest a dark matter scenario which could contribute the possible anomaly observed by Fermi-LAT $\gamma$-ray space telescope. It is based on the model recently proposed by Weinberg. In our scenario the gamma-ray line signal comes from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Seungwon Baek , Hiroshi Okada

A dark sector -- a new non-Abelian gauge group Higgsed or confined near the GeV scale -- can be spectacularly probed in low-energy e+e- collisions. A low-mass dark sector can explain the annual modulation signal reported by DAMA/LIBRA and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-03 Rouven Essig , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

The injection of secondary particles produced by Dark Matter (DM) annihilation at redshift 100<z<1000 affects the process of recombination, leaving an imprint on Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. Here we provide a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-08 Silvia Galli , Fabio Iocco , Gianfranco Bertone , Alessandro Melchiorri

Some extensions of the Standard Model provide Dark Matter candidate particles with sub-GeV mass. These Light Dark Matter particles have been considered for example in Warm Dark Matter scenarios (e.g. the keV scale sterile neutrino, axino or…

We study in this paper the scenario where the dark matter is constituted by Majorana particles which couple to a light Standard Model fermion and an extra scalar via a Yukawa coupling. In this scenario, the annihilation rate into the light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Mathias Garny , Alejandro Ibarra , Stefan Vogl

The AMS-02 collaboration has recently released data on the positron fraction $e^+/(e^-+e^+)$ up to energies of about 350 GeV. If one insists on interpreting the observed excess as a dark matter signal, then we find it is best described by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-06 Andrea De Simone , Antonio Riotto , Wei Xue

Indirect detection of dark matter particles, i.e. the detection of annihilation or decay products of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, has entered a pivotal phase as experiments reach sensitivities that probe the most interesting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-10 Jan Conrad