Session B2: Astrophysics
1:30 PM–3:30 PM, Friday, November 11, 2011
Bldg 48 - ROB Room: Redwood C/D
Chair: Virginia Trimble, University of California, Irvine
Abstract ID: BAPS.2011.CAL.B2.7
Abstract: B2.00007 : Current and Upcoming Sensitivities to Dark Matter in Gamma-Ray Observatories
2:42 PM–2:54 PM
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Authors:
J. Patrick Harding
(UC-Irvine, University of Maryland)
Kevork Abazajian
(UC-Irvine)
Dark matter particle candidates naturally emerge at the weak scale in extensions to the Standard Model of particle physics. Our analysis finds that current constraints from the all-sky exposure of the Fermi Telescope exclude the canonical expected cross section for weakly-interacting massive particle dark matter, in agreement with complementary results from other groups. At higher photon energies, corresponding to higher dark matter particle masses, I show that the High Energy Spectroscopic System (HESS) observatory and High-Altitude Water Cerenkov (HAWC) observatory provide unprecedented sensitivities to extended models of dark matter at the TeV and higher mass scales.
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