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Achterberg, A.; van Beekveld, M.; Caron, S.; Gomez-Vargas, G.A.; Hendriks, L.; Ruiz de Austri, R. |
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Implications of the Fermi-LAT Pass 8 Galactic Center excess on supersymmetric dark matter |
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2017 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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12 |
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12 |
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040 - 23pp |
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dark matter theory; galaxy morphology; cosmology of theories beyond the SM; dwarfs galaxies |
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The Fermi Collaboration has recently updated their analysis of gamma rays from the center of the Galaxy. They reconfirm the presence of an unexplained emission feature which is most prominent in the region of 1-10 GeV, known as the Galactic Center GeV excess (GCE). Although the GCE is now fi rmly detected, an interpretation of this emission as a signal of self-annihilating dark matter (DM) particles is not unambiguously possible due to systematic effects in the gamma-ray modeling estimated in the Galactic Plane. In this paper we build a covariance matrix, collecting different systematic uncertainties investigated in the Fermi Collaboration's paper that affect the GCE spectrum. We show that models where part of the GCE is due to annihilating DM is still consistent with the new data. We also re-evaluate the parameter space regions of the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) that can contribute dominantly to the GCE via neutralino DM annihilation. All recent constraints from DM direct detection experiments such as PICO, LUX, PandaX and Xenon1T, limits on the annihilation cross section from dwarf spheroidal galaxies and the Large Hadron Collider limits are considered in this analysis. Due to a slight shift in the energy spectrum of the GC excess with respect to the previous Fermi analysis, and the recent limits from direct detection experiments, we find a slightly shifted parameter region of the MSSM, compared to our previous analysis, that is consistent with the GCE. Neutralinos with a mass between 85-220 GeV can describe the excess via annihilation into a pair of W-bosons or top quarks. Remarkably, there are models with low fine-tuning among the regions that we have found. The complete set of solutions will be probed by upcoming direct detection experiments and with dedicated searches in the upcoming data of the Large Hadron Collider. |
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[Achterberg, Abraham; van Beekveld, Melissa; Caron, Sascha; Hendriks, Luc] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Fac Sci, Inst Math Astrophys & Particle Phys, Mailbox 79,POB 9010, NL-6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands, Email: a.achterberg@astro.ru.nl; |
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ANTARES Collaboration (Adrian-Martinez, S. et al); Baret, B.; Barrios-Marti, J.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Sanchez-Losa, A.; Tönnis, C.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J. |
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Stacked search for time shifted high energy neutrinos from gamma ray bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope |
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2017 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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77 |
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20 - 10pp |
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A search for high-energy neutrino emission correlated with gamma-ray bursts outside the electromagnetic prompt-emission time window is presented. Using a stacking approach of the time delays between reported gammaray burst alerts and spatially coincident muon-neutrino signatures, data from the Antares neutrino telescope recorded between 2007 and 2012 are analysed. One year of public data from the IceCube detector between 2008 and 2009 have been also investigated. The respective timing profiles are scanned for statistically significant accumulations within 40 days of the Gamma Ray Burst, as expected from Lorentz Invariance Violation effects and some astrophysical models. No significant excess over the expected accidental coincidence rate could be found in either of the two data sets. The average strength of the neutrino signal is found to be fainter than one detectable neutrino signal per hundred gamma-ray bursts in the Antares data at 90% confidence level. |
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[Adrian-Martinez, S.; Ardid, M.; Felis, I.; Martinez-Mora, J. A.; Saldana, M.] Univ Politecn Valencia, Inst Invest Gestio Integrada Zones Costaneres IGI, C Paranimf 1, Gandia 46730, Spain, Email: baret@in2p3.fr; |
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WOS:000398371100001 |
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Afonso, V.I.; Olmo, G.J.; Rubiera-Garcia, D. |
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Scalar geons in Born-Infeld gravity |
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2017 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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08 |
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8 |
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031 - 35pp |
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modified gravity; Wormholes |
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The existence of static, spherically symmetric, self-gravitating scalar field solutions in the context of Born-Infeld gravity is explored. Upon a combination of analytical approximations and numerical methods, the equations for a free scalar field (without a potential term) are solved, verifying that the solutions recover the predictions of General Relativity far from the center but finding important new effects in the central regions. We find two classes of objects depending on the ratio between the Schwarzschild radius and a length scale associated to the Born-Infeld theory: massive solutions have a wormhole structure, with their throat at r = 2 M, while for the lighter configurations the topology is Euclidean. The total energy density of these solutions exhibits a solitonic profile with a maximum peaked away from the center, and located at the throat whenever a wormhole exists. The geodesic structure and curvature invariants are analyzed for the various configurations considered. |
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[Afonso, V. I.] Univ Fed Campina Grande, Unidade Acad Fis, BR-58109970 Campina Grande, PB, Brazil, Email: viafonso@df.ufcg.edu.br; |
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WOS:000408311900031 |
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XENON Collaboration (Aprile, E. et al); Orrigo, S.E.A. |
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Search for two-neutrino double electron capture of Xe-124 with XENON100 |
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2017 |
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Physical Review C |
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Phys. Rev. C |
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95 |
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024605 - 6pp |
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Two-neutrino double electron capture is a rare nuclear decay where two electrons are simultaneously captured from the atomic shell. For Xe-124 this process has not yet been observed and its detection would provide a new reference for nuclear matrix element calculations. We have conducted a search for two-neutrino double electron capture from the K shell of 124Xe using 7636 kg d of data from the XENON100 dark matter detector. Using a Bayesian analysis we observed no significant excess above background, leading to a lower 90% credibility limit on the half-life T-1/2 > 6.5 x 10(20) yr. We have also evaluated the sensitivity of the XENON1T experiment, which is currently being commissioned, and found a sensitivity of T-1/2 > 6.1 x 10(22) yr after an exposure of 2 t yr. |
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[Agostini, F.; Barrow, P.; Berger, T.; Butikofer, L.; Cardoso, J. M. R.; Di Gangi, P.; Diglio, S.; Franco, D.; Garbini, M.; Grignon, C.; Kaminsky, B.; Le Calloch, M.; Lopes, J. A. M.; Orrigo, S. E. A.; Sartorelli, G.; Schreiner, J.; Thers, D.; Zhang, Y.] Columbia Univ, Dept Phys, 538 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027 USA, Email: a.fieguth@uni-muenster.de; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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Aguilar, A.C.; Cardona, J.C.; Ferreira, M.N.; Papavassiliou, J. |
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Non-Abelian Ball-Chiu vertex for arbitrary Euclidean momenta |
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2017 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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We determine the non-Abelian version of the four nontransverse form factors of the quark-gluon vertex, using exact expressions derived from the Slavnov-Taylor identity that this vertex satisfies. In addition to the quark and ghost propagators, a key ingredient of the present approach is the quark-ghost scattering kernel, which is computed within the one-loop dressed approximation. The vertex form factors obtained from this procedure are evaluated for arbitrary Euclidean momenta, and display features not captured by the well-known Ball-Chiu vertex, deduced from the Abelian (ghost-free) Ward identity. Particularly interesting in this analysis is the so-called soft-gluon limit, which, unlike other kinematic configurations considered, is especially sensitive to the approximations employed for the vertex entering in the quark-ghost scattering kernel, and may even be affected by a subtle numerical instability. As an elementary application of the results obtained, we evaluate and compare certain renormalization-point-independent combinations, which contribute to the interaction kernels appearing in the standard quark gap and Bethe-Salpeter equations. In doing so, even though all form factors of the quark-gluon vertex, and in particular the transverse ones which are unconstrained by our procedure, enter nontrivially in the aforementioned kernels, only the contribution of a single form factor, corresponding to the classical (tree-level) tensor, will be considered. |
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[Aguilar, A. C.; Cardona, J. C.; Ferreira, M. N.] Univ Campinas UNICAMP, Inst Phys Gleb Wataghin, BR-13083859 Campinas, SP, Brazil |
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