Speaker
Andrea Massari
(Stony Brook University)
Description
The Fermi $\gamma$-ray Space Telescope has observed the sky since 2008. Dark matter annihilations or decays contribute to the measured diffuse $\gamma$-ray background flux. Using simulated data to first find the “optimal” regions of interest in the $\gamma$-ray sky, we present conservative bounds on annihilation cross section or decay lifetime competitive with other existing limits. We consider DM annihilation/decay into 10 different SM & BSM final states, 4 DM density profiles, and 2 GeV < $m_{DM}$ < 10 TeV, performing no astrophysical foreground modeling. (ArXiv: 1503.07169)
Authors
Dr
Andrea Albert
(KIPAC - SLAC)
Andrea Massari
(Stony Brook University)
Eder Izaguirre
(urn:Google)
Prof.
Elliott Bloom
(KIPAC-SLAC, Stanford University)
German Gomez-Vargas
(Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
Rouven Essig
(S)
