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| Title | Searches for Particle Dark Matter with gamma-rays. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Author(s) | Conrad, Jan (speaker) (Stockholm University) | |||||||||||||||||
| Corporate author(s) | CERN. Geneva | |||||||||||||||||
| Imprint | 2012-11-12. - Streaming video. | |||||||||||||||||
| Series | (EP Seminar) | |||||||||||||||||
| Lecture note | on 2012-11-12T11:00:00 | |||||||||||||||||
| Subject category | EP Seminar | |||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | In this contribution I review the present status and discuss some prospects for indirect detection of dark matter with gamma-rays. Thanks to the Fermi Large Area Telescope, searches in gamma-rays have reached sensitivities that allow to probe the most interesting parameter space of the weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) paradigm. This gain in sensitivity is naturally accompanied by a number of detection claims or indications, the most recent being the claim of a line feature at a dark matter particle mass of ∼ 130 GeV at the Galactic Centre, a claim which requires confirmation from the Fermi-LAT collaboration and other experiments, for example HESS II or the planned Gamma-400 satellite. Predictions for the next generation air Cherenkov telescope, Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), together with forecasts on future Fermi-LAT constraints arrive at the exciting possibility that the cosmological benchmark cross-section could be probed from masses of a few GeV to a few TeV. Consequently, non-detection would pose a challenge to the WIMP paradigm, but the reached sensitivities also imply that --optimistically-- a detection is in the cards. | |||||||||||||||||
| Copyright/License | © 2012-2024 CERN | |||||||||||||||||
| Submitted by | guillaume.unal@cern.ch | |||||||||||||||||
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