5–7 May 2014
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Optimal Conservative bounds on DM with Fermi Telescope

5 May 2014, 15:00
15m
Benedum Hall G31 (University of Pittsburgh)

Benedum Hall G31

University of Pittsburgh

Speaker

Andrea Massari (S)

Description

The Fermi γ-ray Space Telescope has observed the sky since 2008. Dark matter annihilations or decays contribute to the measured diffuse gamma-ray background flux. We present conservative bounds on annihilation cross section or decay lifetime. We consider DM annihilation/decay into 12 different Standard Model final states, 3 DM density profiles and 2 GeV < m_{DM} < 10 TeV , performing no astrophysical foreground modeling.

Authors

Andrea Massari (S) Eder Izaguirre (Stanford University/SLAC) Prof. Elliott Bloom (KIPAC-SLAC, Stanford University) Rouven Essig (S)

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