The Search for Milky Way Halo Substructure WIMP Annihilations Using the GLAST LAT

Conference · Mon Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2007 · Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.173:60-63,2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/899209· OSTI ID:899209

Wai, Larry

The GLAST LAT Collaboration is one among several experimental groups, covering a wide range of approaches, pursuing the search for the nature of dark matter. The GLAST LAT has the unique ability to find new sources of high energy gamma radiation emanating directly from WIMP annihilations in situ in the universe. Using it's wide band spectral and full sky spatial capabilities, the GLAST LAT can form ''images'' in high energy gamma-rays of dark matter substructures in the gamma-ray sky. We describe a preliminary feasibility study for indirect detection of milky way dark matter satellites using the GLAST LAT.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 899209
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-12339; TRN: US200708%%387
• Journal Information: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.173:60-63,2007, Conference: Prepared for 7th UCLA Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe, Marina de Rey, California, 22-24 Feb 2006
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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