scholarly journals Direct constraints on diffusion models from cosmic-ray positron data: Excluding the minimal model for dark matter searches

2014 ◽  
Vol 90 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Lavalle ◽  
David Maurin ◽  
Antje Putze
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Minimal Model ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Diffusion Models

scholarly journals Present and future status of light dark matter models from cosmic-ray electron upscattering

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Dent ◽  
Bhaskar Dutta ◽  
Jayden L. Newstead ◽  
Ian M. Shoemaker ◽  
Natalia Tapia Arellano
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Future Status

An excess radio signal in the Abell 4038 cluster

2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (4) ◽  
pp. 5583-5588
Author(s):  
Man Ho Chan ◽  
Chak Man Lee
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Spectral Data ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Radio Signal ◽  
Dark Matter Particle ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Annihilation Cross Section ◽  
Radio Continuum ◽  
Test Statistic ◽  
Dark Matter Annihilation

ABSTRACT In the past decade, various instruments, such as the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and the Dark Matter Particle Explorer(DAMPE), have been used to detect the signals of annihilating dark matter in our Galaxy. Although some excesses of gamma rays, antiprotons and electrons/positrons have been reported and are claimed to be dark matter signals, the uncertainties of the contributions of Galactic pulsars are still too large to confirm the claims. In this paper, we report on a possible radio signal of annihilating dark matter manifested in the archival radio continuum spectral data of the Abell 4038 cluster. By assuming a thermal annihilation cross-section and comparing the dark matter annihilation model with the null hypothesis (cosmic ray emission without dark matter annihilation), we obtain very large test statistic (TS) values, TS > 45, for four popular annihilation channels, which correspond to more than 6σ statistical preference. This reveals a possible potential signal of annihilating dark matter. In particular, our results are also consistent with the recent claims of dark matter mass, m ≈ 30–50 GeV, annihilating via the $\rm b\bar{b}$ quark channel with the thermal annihilation cross-section. However, at this time, we cannot exclude the possibility that a better background cosmic ray model could explain the spectral data without recourse to dark matter annihilations.

scholarly journals A possible radio signal of annihilating dark matter in the Abell 4038 cluster

2019 ◽  
Vol 495 (1) ◽  
pp. L124-L128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Ho Chan ◽  
Chak Man Lee
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Radio Signal ◽  
Dark Matter Particle ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Annihilation Cross Section ◽  
Radio Continuum ◽  
Test Statistic ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Dark Matter Annihilation

ABSTRACT In the past decade, some telescopes [e.g. Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT), Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer(AMS), and Dark Matter Particle Explorer(DAMPE)] were launched to detect the signals of annihilating dark matter in our Galaxy. Although some excess of gamma-rays, antiprotons, and electrons/positrons have been reported and claimed as dark matter signals, the uncertainties of Galactic pulsars’ contributions are still too large to confirm the claims. In this Letter, we report a possible radio signal of annihilating dark matter manifested in the archival radio continuum spectral data of the Abell 4038 cluster. By assuming the thermal annihilation cross-section and comparing the dark matter annihilation model with the null hypothesis (cosmic ray emission without dark matter annihilation), we get very large test statistic values >45 for four popular annihilation channels, which correspond to more than 6.5σ statistical preference. This provides a very strong evidence for the existence of annihilating dark matter. In particular, our results also support the recent claims of dark matter mass m ≈ 30–50 GeV annihilating via the bb̄ quark channel with the thermal annihilation cross-section.

scholarly journals Cosmic-Ray Signatures of Dark Matter Decay

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Tran ◽  
George Alverson ◽  
Pran Nath ◽  
Brent Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cosmic Ray

Searching for signatures of dark matter in the cosmic ray spectrum measured by AMS-01

2011 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 335
Author(s):  
G. Carosi ◽  
S. Xiao ◽  
P. Fisher ◽  
G. Rybka ◽  
F. Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cosmic Ray

scholarly journals Measurement of cosmic ray proton spectrum with the Dark Matter Particle Explorer

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuan Yue ◽  
Antonio De Benedittis ◽  
Mario Nicola Mazziotta ◽  
Stefania Vitillo ◽  
Zhi-Hui Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Matter Particle ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Proton Spectrum

scholarly journals GAPS - Dark matter search with low-energy cosmic ray antideuterons and antiprotons

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Von Doetinchem ◽  
Tsuguo Aramaki ◽  
Steven Boggs ◽  
Hideyuki Fuke ◽  
Charles Hailey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Dark Matter Search
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