Speaker
Prof.
Profumo Stefano
(UC Santa Cruz)
Description
I will outline the science opportunities in the areas of searches for dark matter and new physics offered by a proposed future MeV gamma-ray telescope, the Galactic Explorer with a Coded Aperture Mask Compton Telescope (GECCO). I will point out that such an instrument would play a critical role in opening up a discovery window for particle dark matter with mass in the MeV or sub-MeV range, in disentangling the origin of the mysterious 511 keV line emission in the Galactic Center region, and in potentially discovering Hawking evaporation from light primordial black holes.
Keywords
Dark matter; gamma rays
| Subcategory | Future projects |
|---|---|
| other Collaboration | GECCO |
Primary author
Prof.
Profumo Stefano
(UC Santa Cruz)
