15 papers
Constraining axion quadratic couplings with the Hulse-Taylor binary system
Ziwen Yin, Shyam Balaji, Malcolm Fairbairn +1
The orbital evolution of the Hulse-Taylor binary neutron star system is described to high precision by general relativity, in which gravity is the only long-range force and gravita…
Primordial black holes and magnetic fields in conformal neutrino mass models
Shyam Balaji, João Gonçalves, Danny Marfatia +2
Sufficiently strong and long-lasting first-order phase transitions can produce primordial black holes (PBHs) that contribute substantially to the dark matter abundance of the Unive…
INTEGRAL, eROSITA and Voyager Constraints on Light Bosonic Dark Matter: ALPs, Dark Photons, Scalars, and Vectors
Thong T. Q. Nguyen, Pedro De la Torre Luque, Isabelle John +3
The decay of light bosonic dark matter particles can produce a bright electron/positron () flux that can be strongly constrained by local Voyager observations of the direct…
A Solar Probe of Dark Matter Decay in the Galaxy
Maximilian Detering, Shyam Balaji
Dark matter (DM) particles decaying in the Galactic halo can inject energetic that inverse-Compton scatter (ICS) solar photons into -rays, producing a diffuse and exten…
Refining Galactic primordial black hole evaporation constraints
Pedro De la Torre Luque, Jordan Koechler, Shyam Balaji
We revisit the role of primordial black holes (PBHs) as potential dark matter (DM) candidates, particularly focusing on light asteroid-mass PBHs. These PBHs are expected to emit pa…
New 511 keV line data provides strongest sub-GeV dark matter constraints
Pedro De la Torre Luque, Shyam Balaji, Joseph Silk
We explore the ~keV emission associated to sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles that can produce electron-positron pairs and form positronium after thermalizing. We use …