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We propose a new signature for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter, a spectral feature in the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray radiation. This feature, a sudden drop of the gamma-ray intensity at an energy corresponding to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Piero Ullio

We describe an approach to detect dark matter and other invisible particles with mass below a GeV, exploiting missing energy-momentum measurements and other kinematic features of fixed-target production. In the case of an invisibly decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

We consider indirect detection signals of atomic dark matter, with a massive dark photon which mixes kinetically with hypercharge. In significant regions of parameter space, dark matter remains at least partially ionized today, and dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-29 Lauren Pearce , Kalliopi Petraki , Alexander Kusenko

The quest for Dark Matter signals in the gamma-ray sky is one of the most intriguing and exciting challenges in astrophysics. In this paper we perform the analysis of the energy spectrum of the \textit{Fermi bubbles} at different latitudes,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-31 Wei-Chih Huang , Alfredo Urbano , Wei Xue

For the first time, we use the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on-board the Fermi satellite to search for sterile neutrino decay lines in the energy range 10-25 keV corresponding to sterile neutrino mass range 20-50 keV. This energy range has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-12 Shunsaku Horiuchi , Kenny C. Y. Ng , Jennifer M. Gaskins , Miles Smith , Robert Preece

Recent advances in N-body simulations of cold dark matter halos point to a substantial density enhancement near the center. This means that, e.g., the $\gamma$ ray signals from neutralino dark matter annihilations would be significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 L. Bergstrom , P. Ullio , J. Buckley

Dark photons, hypothesized to be sufficiently light and/or weakly interacting, offer a compelling candidate for dark matter. Their decay into three photons, referred to as the "dark photon trident" process, becomes the dominant channel when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Thong T. Q. Nguyen

The generic expectation in string/supergravity models is that there are multiple moduli fields with masses of the order of the supersymmetry breaking scale. We study the cosmology that arises as a result of vacuum misalignment of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-23 Bobby S. Acharya , Mansi Dhuria , Diptimoy Ghosh , Anshuman Maharana , Francesco Muia

The purpose of line-intensity mapping (IM), an emerging tool for extragalactic astronomy and cosmology, is to measure the integrated emission along the line of sight from spectral lines emitted from galaxies and the intergalactic medium.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski , Marc Kamionkowski

There exists considerable interest in dark matter candidates that can reduce cosmological structure at sub-galactic scales through a suppression of the power spectrum of primordial perturbations as well as have a primordial velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-12 Kevork N. Abazajian

We study an exciting dark matter scenario in a radiative neutrino model to explain the X-ray line signal at $3.55$ keV recently reported by XMN-Newton X-ray observatory using data of various galaxy clusters and Andromeda galaxy. We show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Hiroshi Okada , Takashi Toma

Proposed dark matter detectors with eV-scale sensitivities will detect a large background of atomic (nuclear) recoils from coherent photon scattering. This background climbs steeply below $\sim10$~eVnr, far exceeding the declining rate of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Alan E. Robinson

We consider dark matter consisting of long--living particles with masses $10^{7}~\lesssim~M~\lesssim~10^{16}$ GeV decaying through hadronic channel as a source of high energy neutrino. Using recent data on high energy neutrino from IceCube…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-08 M. Yu. Kuznetsov

The origin of both the diffuse high-latitude MeV gamma-ray emission and the 511 keV line flux from the Galactic bulge are uncertain. Previous studies have invoked dark matter physics to independently explain these observations, though as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Louis E. Strigari

We provide a detailed formulation for calculating the angular power spectrum of the cosmic background photons arising from the dark matter decay or annihilation in a comprehensive manner. We pay particular attention to the case of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 Ryosuke Kasuya , Kazunori Nakayama

We construct empirical models of the diffuse gamma-ray background toward the Galactic Center. Including all known point sources and a template of emission associated with interactions of cosmic rays with molecular gas, we show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-23 Kevork N. Abazajian , Nicolas Canac , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Manoj Kaplinghat

If the dark matter is unstable, the decay of these particles throughout the universe and in the halo of the Milky Way could contribute significantly to the isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB) as measured by Fermi. In this article, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 Carlos Blanco , Dan Hooper

We investigate the sensitivities of upcoming MeV gamma-ray telescopes to sterile neutrino dark matter in the mass range $(0.2-100)\,{\rm MeV}$. Sterile neutrinos in this regime can produce observable photon signals through radiative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-22 Shivam Gola , Akash Kumar Saha , Manibrata Sen

Dark matter detectors built primarily to probe elastic scattering of WIMPs on nuclei are also precise probes of light, weakly coupled particles that may be absorbed by the detector material. In this paper, we derive constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-23 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

Dark matter may interact with the Standard Model through the kinetic mixing of dark photons, $A'$, with Standard Model photons. Such dark matter will accumulate in the Sun and annihilate into dark photons. The dark photons may then leave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-05 Jonathan L. Feng , Jordan Smolinsky , Philip Tanedo