The physics of background discrimination in liquid xenon, and first results from Xenon10 in the hunt for WIMP dark matter

CE Dahl - 2009 - search.proquest.com
The WIMP limit set by the Xenon10 experiment in 2007 signals a new era in direct detection
of dark matter, with several large-scale liquid target detectors now under construction. A …

The PAMELA positron excess from annihilations into a light boson

I Cholis, DP Finkbeiner, L Goodenough… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Excluding the light dark matter window of a 331 model using LHC and direct dark matter detection data

D Cogollo, AX Gonzalez-Morales… - … of Cosmology and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We sift the impact of the recent Higgs precise measurements, and recent dark matter direct
detection results, on the dark sector of an electroweak extension of the Standard Model that …

Cosmic rays from leptonic dark matter

CR Chen, F Takahashi - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
If dark matter possesses a lepton number, it is natural to expect the dark-matter annihilation
and/or decay mainly produces the standard model leptons, while negligible amount of the …

Robust identification of isotropic diffuse gamma rays from Galactic dark matter

JM Siegal-Gaskins, V Pavlidou - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
Dark matter annihilation in Galactic substructure will produce diffuse gamma-ray emission of
remarkably constant intensity across the sky, making it difficult to disentangle this Galactic …

Neutralino dark matter in the USSM

J Kalinowski, SF King, JP Roberts - Journal of High Energy …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper provides a comprehensive discussion of neutralino dark matter within classes of
extended supersymmetric models referred to as the USSM containing one additional SM …

New Constraints from PAMELA anti-proton data on Annihilating and Decaying Dark Matter

I Cholis - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently the PAMELA experiment has released its updated anti-proton flux and anti-proton
to proton flux ratio data up to energies of≈ 200GeV. With no clear excess of cosmic ray anti …

Dark matter annihilation rate with nonstandard thermal history

AE Nelson, C Spitzer - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010 - Springer
We consider the cosmology of a model in which the dark matter is part of a nonminimal
hidden sector which is not in thermal equilibrium with the standard model particles at the …

Cosmic ray propagation time scales: lessons from radioactive nuclei and positron data

K Blum - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We take a fresh look at high energy radioactive nuclei data reported in the 90's and at the
positron data recently reported by PAMELA. Our aim is to study the model independent …

Low energy INTEGRAL positrons from exciting dark matter

R Morris, N Weiner - arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.3747, 2011 - arxiv.org
The origin of the e^+ e^-511 keV line observed by INTEGRAL remains unclear. The rate and
morphology of the signal have prompted questions as to whether dark matter could play a …