Speaker
Dr
Matthew Wood
(SLAC)
Description
A leading candidate for astrophysical dark matter (DM) is a weakly
interacting particle with a mass in the range from 10 GeV to 10 TeV.
The pair annihilation of DM in environments with high DM density such
as in the cores of galaxies could produce gamma-ray signals detectable
with space- or ground-based gamma-ray observatories. The Cherenkov
Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based gamma-ray observatory
that will be sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range from a few
tens of GeV to 100 TeV. I will present the projected sensitivity of
CTA to DM signals in the Galactic Center region and dwarf spheroidal
galaxies of the Milky Way. I will discuss these projections in the
context of a specific model framework, the phenomenological MSSM
(pMSSM), and review the complementarity of CTA with direct detection
experiments and DM searches at the Large Hadron Collider.
| APS member ID | 61012865 |
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Primary author
Dr
Matthew Wood
(SLAC)
