18–22 Apr 2011
Palais des Papes, Avignon
Europe/Paris timezone

Electroweak lights from Dark Matter annihilation

21 Apr 2011, 17:30
15m
Chambre du Trésorier (Palais des Papes, Avignon)

Chambre du Trésorier

Palais des Papes, Avignon

Speaker

Dr Alfredo Urbano (IFAE, Universitat Autonoma di Barcelona & Università del Salento)

Description

The computation of the energy spectra of Standard Model particles originated from the annihilation/decay of dark matter is a foudamental ingredient to investigate the possibility of its indirect detection. We compute how the inclusion of electroweak corrections signicantly alter such spectra when the mass of dark matter particles is larger than the electroweak scale. A wide overview of these effects will be discussed.

Primary authors

Prof. Alessandro Strumia (CERN PH-TH, Università di Pisa and INFN, sez. di Pisa) Dr Alfredo Urbano (IFAE, Universitat Autonoma di Barcelona & Università del Salento) Dr Andrea De Simone (EPFL, Lausanne) Prof. Antonio Riotto (CERN, PH-TH and INFN, sez. di Padova) Prof. Denis Comelli (INFN, sez. di Ferrara) Dr Filippo Sala (Scuola Normale Superiore, Università di Pisa and INFN, sez. di Pisa) Prof. Marco Cirelli (CERN PH-TH and CEA/Saclay) Prof. Paolo Ciafaloni (INFN, sez. di Lecce)

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