30 November 2015 to 1 December 2015
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München
Europe/Berlin timezone

Challenges of Indirect Detection of low mass (below 50 GeV) Dark Matter

1 Dec 2015, 12:15
45m
Auditorium (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München)

Auditorium

Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München

Föhringer Ring 6 80805 München

Speaker

Dr Marco CIRELLI (LPTHE Jussieu CNRS)

Description

Indirect detection of Dark Matter (i.e. the search for cosmic rays produced by DM annihilations or decays in the galactic halo, or beyond) is usually considered as a promising approach, rightly so. However, when DM is relatively light, say in the sub-WIMP regime, the technique faces some challenges, essentially because astrophysics gets too much in the way. I will give a general overview of DM ID and then discuss some example of studies in the low mass region, in particular related to antiprotons (and solar modulation) and gamma rays (including from secondary radiation: Inverse Compton, bremsstrahlung, synchrotron radiation).

Primary author

Dr Marco CIRELLI (LPTHE Jussieu CNRS)

Presentation materials