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PPPC 4 DM ID: a poor particle physicist cookbook for dark matter indirect detection

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In this article, the authors provide ingredients and recipes for computing signals of TeV-scale Dark Matter annihilations and decays in the Galaxy and beyond, and provide the propagation functions for charged particles in the galaxy, for several DM distribution profiles and sets of propagation parameters.
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We provide ingredients and recipes for computing signals of TeV-scale Dark Matter annihilations and decays in the Galaxy and beyond. For each DM channel, we present the energy spectra of electrons and positrons, antiprotons, antideuterons, gamma rays, neutrinos and antineutrinos e, mu, tau at production, computed by high-statistics simulations. We estimate the Monte Carlo uncertainty by comparing the results yielded by the Pythia and Herwig event generators. We then provide the propagation functions for charged particles in the Galaxy, for several DM distribution profiles and sets of propagation parameters. Propagation of electrons and positrons is performed with an improved semi-analytic method that takes into account position-dependent energy losses in the Milky Way. Using such propagation functions, we compute the energy spectra of electrons and positrons, antiprotons and antideuterons at the location of the Earth. We then present the gamma ray fluxes, both from prompt emission and from Inverse Compton scattering in the galactic halo. Finally, we provide the spectra of extragalactic gamma rays. All results are available in numerical form and ready to be consumed.

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WIMP dark matter candidates and searches—current status and future prospects

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Model-independent implications of the e , p cosmic ray spectra on properties of Dark Matter (updated including AMS 2013 data)

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors classify all two-body nonrelativistic Dark Matter annihilation channels to the allowed polarization states of Standard Model particles, computing the energy spectra of the stable nal-state particles relevant for indirect DM detection.
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A tale of tails: Dark matter interpretations of the Fermi GeV excess in light of background model systematics

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