Speaker
Dr
Christian Farnier
(Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University)
Description
Dark Matter in form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles can annihilate and produce high energy (E>100MeV) gamma rays. Not deflected by magnetic field, they can be used to probe for the existence of DM in different location, e.g. at the Galactic centre or in dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Pair conversion space-based telescopes like Fermi-LAT, and an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes such as H.E.S.S. or the future CTA, have reached the sensitivity to study models with relic density thermally allowed. In this talk I will describe the functioning principles of these experiments and present some of the latest results.
Author
Dr
Christian Farnier
(Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University)
