Speaker
Stefano Scopel
(Sogang University)
Description
Celestial bodies can cathalize WIMP annihilations, providing a promising way to detect them. Moreover, celestial bodies and direct detection probe the same WIMP-nucleus scattering process in a complementary way, allowing to remove the uncertainty on the velocity distribution. Thanks to their gravitational acceleration celestial bodies also allow to extend the experimental sensitivity to a larger parameter space because WIMPs scatter off nucler targets at a larger speed compared to terrestrial detectors.
