Speaker
Mr
Joseph Lundeen
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Description
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is a very high energy (500 GeV to 100 TeV) gamma ray detector located in southern Mexico. HAWC has both a wide field of a view and near-continuous duty cycle, making it ideal for unbiased sky surveys. We use HAWC data to perform such a search for gamma ray signals from "dark dwarfs"; dark matter sub-halos with no optical counterpart. There should be hundreds of these dark dwarfs in the HAWC field-of-view. We see no significant signals from these, so we use our results to set upper limits on dark matter annihilation across HAWC's view of the sky.
Primary author
Mr
Joseph Lundeen
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
