Date: Tuesday November 5, 2013 at noon
Location: 223 Herman Brown Hall, Rice University
Title: Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Speaker: Andrea Albert (SLAC)
Abstract:
There is overwhelming evidence that non-baryonic dark matter
constitutes ~27% of the energy density of the universe. Weakly
Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are promising dark matter
candidates that may produce gamma rays via annihilation or decay
detectable by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). A detection
of WIMPs would also indicate the existence of physics beyond the
Standard Model. I will present recent results from indirect WIMP
searches by the Fermi LAT Collaboration. I will also give a detailed
presentation of the recent Fermi-LAT Collaboration search for spectral
lines, including a discussion of what we found when investigating the
reported tentative signal in the Galactic center at 130 GeV.
constitutes ~27% of the energy density of the universe. Weakly
Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are promising dark matter
candidates that may produce gamma rays via annihilation or decay
detectable by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). A detection
of WIMPs would also indicate the existence of physics beyond the
Standard Model. I will present recent results from indirect WIMP
searches by the Fermi LAT Collaboration. I will also give a detailed
presentation of the recent Fermi-LAT Collaboration search for spectral
lines, including a discussion of what we found when investigating the
reported tentative signal in the Galactic center at 130 GeV.
