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SUMMARY:Searches for Dark Matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
DTSTART:20170509T200600Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Regina Caputo (UMD/NASA/GSFC)\n\nThe era of precisio
 n cosmology has revealed that ~80% of the total amount of matter in the un
 iverse is dark matter. One promising candidate\, motivated by both particl
 e physics and astrophysics\, is the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (W
 IMP). WIMPs are predicted to couple to the Standard Model via annihilation
  or decay. The annihilation or decay products of particular interest are n
 eutrinos and gamma rays\, which are detectable by IceCube and the Fermi La
 rge Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) respectively. Since they do not carry charg
 e\, they can be traced back to the original source. Indirect searches such
  as these complement direct and collider (production) searches and are nec
 essary to fully investigate the particle nature of dark matter. For nearly
  nine years\, Fermi LAT has been surveying the sky in the energy range 20 
 MeV to >300 GeV from low Earth orbit. I present several recent results fro
 m the Fermi LAT Collaboration for a variety of indirect search targets\, i
 ncluding the  dwarf spheroidal galaxies\, and the Galactic center. To date
 \, the Fermi LAT Collaboration has not detected a convincing WIMP signal a
 nd hasreported upper limits\, which for some search targets are now challe
 nging the standard expectations for WIMP dark matter. I will also discuss 
 the prospects with the Fermi LAT and future gamma-ray telescopes.\n\nhttps
 ://events.icecube.wisc.edu/event/82/contributions/5205/
LOCATION:Northwoods (Union South)
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URL:https://events.icecube.wisc.edu/event/82/contributions/5205/
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