7 papers
Molecular clouds constraints on sub-GeV DM and asteroid-mass PBHs
Asier Salces Pérez, Pedro de la Torre Luque
We show that the ionization of molecular clouds provides a novel probe of dark matter scenarios producing low-energy pairs through annihilation, decay, or Hawking evaporat…
Galactic Center Neutrinos from Cosmic Ray-Dark Matter Interactions
Jorge Terol Calvo, Pedro de la Torre Luque, Mainak Mukhopadhyay +2
The IceCube and ANTARES collaborations have recently reported evidence for high-energy neutrinos associated with the Galactic plane and the Galactic Ridge, offering a new pathway t…
Strong Constraints on Millisecond Pulsar Injection Spectra from Fermi-LAT Observations of the Galactic Center
Jordan Koechler, Pedro De la Torre Luque, Mattia Di Mauro
Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a leading explanation of the Galactic Center excess (GCE) observed in Fermi-LAT data. We constrain this scenario by jointly modeling prompt and inver…
The potential of diffuse Galactic Ridge neutrino measurements to constrain dark matter
Jaume Zuriaga-Puig, Pedro de la Torre Luque, Viviana Gammaldi
We use the latest ANTARES Galactic Ridge neutrino measurements to investigate their implications for indirect dark matter (DM) searches. We consider both annihilating and decaying…
Do the sources of the 511 keV excess explain the anomalous CMZ ionization?
Pedro De la Torre Luque, Francesca Calore
The anomalous rate of molecules ionization observed at the Central Molecular zone (CMZ) challenges known mechanisms of ionization observed in molecular clouds across the Galaxy, du…
The COSMIC WISPers White Paper: The physics case for Weakly Interacting Slim Particles
Ariel Arza, Deniz Aybas, Shyam Balaji +124
Axions and other very weakly interacting slim particles (WISPs), with masses below 1 GeV, arise naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In particula…