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Description
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched into Earth orbit in June 2008 and is celebrating its 15th year of operation. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) is the main instrument onboard the Fermi satellite and is designed to be sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range from about 20 MeV up to the TeV regime. From its launch, the LAT has collected more than 4.25 billion photon events, providing crucial information to improve our understanding of particle acceleration and gamma-ray production phenomena in astrophysical sources. In this talk, some of the main results obtained by the Fermi LAT collaboration will be reviewed, with a particular focus on dark matter searches. Indeed, the LAT data have been used to search for possible dark matter signals from several targets in the sky. Although no evidence of such dark matter signal has been found, the data have provided strong constraints on the nature of the dark matter particle.
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Francesco Loparco, Università degli Studi di Bari and INFN Sezione di Bari, Italy
| Is this abstract from experiment? | Yes |
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| Name of experiment and experimental site | Fermi LAT |
| Is the speaker for that presentation defined? | Yes |
| Internet talk | No |