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Data-Driven Constraints on Cosmic-Ray Diffusion: Probing Self-Generated Turbulence in the Milky Way
Mattia Di Mauro, Michael Korsmeier, Alessandro Cuoco
We employ a data-driven approach to investigate the rigidity and spatial dependence of the diffusion of cosmic rays in the turbulent magnetic field of the Milky Way. Our analysis c…
Limits on dark matter annihilation in prompt cusps from the isotropic gamma-ray background
M. Sten Delos, Michael Korsmeier, Axel Widmark +3
Recent studies indicate that thermally produced dark matter will form highly concentrated, low-mass cusps in the early universe that often survive until the present. While these cu…
The self-confinement of electrons and positrons from dark matter
Marco Regis, Michael Korsmeier, Gianni Bernardi +3
Radiative emissions from electrons and positrons generated by dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay are one of the most investigated signals in indirect searches of WIMPs. Ideal t…
A novel prediction for secondary positrons and electrons in the Galaxy
Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato, Michael Korsmeier +2
The Galactic flux of cosmic-ray (CR) positrons in the GeV to TeV energy range is very likely due to different Galactic components. One of these is the inelastic scattering of CR nu…
New determination of the production cross section for rays in the Galaxy
Luca Orusa, Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato +1
The flux of rays is measured with unprecedented accuracy by the Large Area Telescope from 100 MeV to almost 1 TeV. In the future, the Cherenkov Telescope Array…
New determination of the production cross section for secondary positrons and electrons in the Galaxy
Luca Orusa, Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato +1
The cosmic-ray fluxes of electrons and positrons () are measured with high precision by the space-borne particle spectrometer AMS-02. To infer a precise interpretation of…
Flat spectrum radio quasars and BL Lacs dominate the anisotropy of the unresolved gamma-ray background
Michael Korsmeier, Elena Pinetti, Michela Negro +2
We analyze the angular power spectrum (APS) of the unresolved gamma-ray background (UGRB) emission and combine it with the measured properties of the resolved gamma-ray sources of…
Testing the universality of cosmic-ray nuclei from protons to oxygen with AMS-02
Michael Korsmeier, Alessandro Cuoco
The AMS-02 experiment has provided high-precision measurements of several cosmic-ray (CR) species. The achieved percent-level accuracy gives access to small spectral differences am…
EuCAPT White Paper: Opportunities and Challenges for Theoretical Astroparticle Physics in the Next Decade
R. Alves Batista, M. A. Amin, G. Barenboim +134
Astroparticle physics is undergoing a profound transformation, due to a series of extraordinary new results, such as the discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos with IceCube, the…
Revisiting the AMS-02 antiproton excess: The role of correlated errors
Jan Heisig, Michael Korsmeier, Martin Wolfgang Winkler
Cosmic-ray antiprotons are a remarkable diagnostic tool for the study of astroparticle physics' processes in our Galaxy. While the bulk of measured antiprotons is consistent with a…
Constraining dark matter annihilation with cosmic ray antiprotons using neural networks
Felix Kahlhoefer, Michael Korsmeier, Michael Krämer +2
The interpretation of data from indirect detection experiments searching for dark matter annihilations requires computationally expensive simulations of cosmic-ray propagation. In…
Implications of Lithium to Oxygen AMS-02 spectra on our understanding of cosmic-ray diffusion
Michael Korsmeier, Alessandro Cuoco
We analyze recent AMS-02 comic-ray measurements of Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen. The emphasis of the analysis is on systematic uncertainties related to pr…
Dark matter or correlated errors: Systematics of the AMS-02 antiproton excess
Jan Heisig, Michael Korsmeier, Martin Wolfgang Winkler
Several studies have pointed out an excess in the AMS-02 antiproton spectrum at rigidities of 10-20 GV. Its spectral properties were found to be consistent with a dark-matter parti…
Cosmic-ray Antinuclei as Messengers of New Physics: Status and Outlook for the New Decade
P. von Doetinchem, K. Perez, T. Aramaki +59
The precise measurement of cosmic-ray antinuclei serves as an important means for identifying the nature of dark matter and other new astrophysical phenomena, and could be used wit…
Testing gamma-ray models of blazars in the extragalactic sky
Silvia Manconi, Michael Korsmeier, Fiorenza Donato +3
The global contribution of unresolved gamma-ray point sources to the extragalactic gamma-ray background has been recently measured down to gamma-ray fluxes lower than those reached…
Scrutinizing the evidence for dark matter in cosmic-ray antiprotons
Alessandro Cuoco, Jan Heisig, Lukas Klamt +2
Global fits of primary and secondary cosmic-ray (CR) fluxes measured by AMS-02 have great potential to study CR propagation models and search for exotic sources of antimatter such…
Production cross sections of cosmic antiprotons in the light of new data from the NA61 and LHCb experiments
Michael Korsmeier, Fiorenza Donato, Mattia Di Mauro
The cosmic-ray flux of antiprotons is measured with high precision by the space-borne particle spectrometers AMS-02.Its interpretation requires a correct description of the dominan…
A combined dark matter study of AMS-02 antiprotons and Fermi-LAT gamma rays
Alessandro Cuoco, Jan Heisig, Michael Korsmeier +1
Observations of cosmic rays are a sensitive probe of dark matter annihilation in our Galaxy. In this article we present an analysis of the AMS-02 antiproton data, reducing cosmic-r…
Prospects to verify a possible dark matter hint in cosmic antiprotons with antideuterons and antihelium
Michael Korsmeier, Fiorenza Donato, Nicolao Fornengo
Cosmic rays are an important tool to study dark matter annihilation in our Galaxy. Recently, a possible hint for dark matter annihilation was found in the antiproton spectrum measu…
Probing dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy with antiprotons and gamma rays
Alessandro Cuoco, Jan Heisig, Michael Korsmeier +1
A possible hint of dark matter annihilation has been found in Cuoco, Korsmeier and Krämer (2017) from an analysis of recent cosmic-ray antiproton data from AMS-02 and taking into a…
Prescriptions on antiproton cross section data for precise theoretical antiproton flux predictions
Fiorenza Donato, Michael Korsmeier, Mattia Di Mauro
After the breakthrough from the satellite-borne PAMELA detector, the flux of cosmic-ray (CR) antiprotons has been provided with unprecedented accuracy by AMS-02 on the Internationa…
Novel dark matter constraints from antiprotons in the light of AMS-02
Alessandro Cuoco, Michael Krämer, Michael Korsmeier
We evaluate dark matter (DM) limits from cosmic-ray antiproton observations using the recent precise AMS-02 measurements. We properly take into account cosmic-ray propagation uncer…
Galactic cosmic-ray propagation in the light of AMS-02: I. Analysis of protons, helium, and antiprotons
Michael Korsmeier, Alessandro Cuoco
We present novel constraints on cosmic-ray propagation in the Galaxy using the recent precise measurements of proton and helium spectra from AMS-02, together with preliminary AMS-0…