Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Download or read book Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 (LAT). A detection of WIMPs would also indicate the existence of physics beyond the Standard Model. We present recent results from the two cleanest indirect WIMP searches by the Fermi-LAT Collaboration: searches for [gamma]-ray spectral lines and [gamma]-ray emission associated with Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies.