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Les Houches Lectures on Indirect Detection of Dark Matter

Journal Article · · SciPost Physics Lecture Notes
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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

These lectures, presented at the 2021 Les Houches Summer School on Dark Matter, provide an introduction to key methods and tools of indirect dark matter searches, as well as a status report on the field circa summer 2021. Topics covered include the possible effects of energy injection from dark matter on the early universe, methods to calculate both the expected energy distribution and spatial distribution of particles produced by dark matter interactions, an outline of theoretical models that predict diverse signals in indirect detection, and a discussion of current constraints and some claimed anomalies. These notes are intended as an introduction to indirect dark matter searches for graduate students, focusing primarily on intuition-building estimates and useful concepts and tools.

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1867969
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SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, Journal Name: SciPost Physics Lecture Notes; ISSN 2590-1990
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