Astroparticle Physics

Gamma-ray probes of dark matter annihilation

by Shin’ichiro Ando (GRAPPA, Amsterdam)

Europe/Berlin
Building 67, SemRm 10 (DESY Hamburg)

Building 67, SemRm 10

DESY Hamburg

Description
One of the most important goals for modern cosmology is to reveal the nature of dark matter. Current and future generations of gamma-ray telescopes aim to achieve it by looking for gamma rays from dark matter annihilation. After giving brief overview of the latest observational results with Fermi-LAT, I will focus on galaxy clusters and diffuse gamma-ray background as two potentially interesting target for dark matter searches. For the clusters, I show results of the analysis of gamma-ray data from ~3-yr Fermi telescope, in terms of upper limits on annihilation cross section. Especially, I discuss the importance of effects of baryonic infall that modify the dark matter density profile largely and hence boost the annihilation signals. For the diffuse gamma-ray background, I discuss the average intensity and small-scale anisotropy, and constraints on annihilation cross section from these arguments.