PRISMA+ Colloquium

July 13, 2016 at 1 p.m. in Lorentz-Raum 05-127, Staudingerweg 7

Prof. Dr. Tobias Hurth
Institut für Physik, THEP
hurth@uni-mainz.de

Search for dark matter in the Sky with ongoing and planned experiments
Prof. Aldo Morselli (Universita Roma 2, Italia)


Detection of gamma rays and cosmic rays from the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles is a promising method for identifying dark matter, understanding its intrinsic properties, and mapping its distribution in the universe. I will review recent results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other space-based experiments, and highlight the constraints these currently place on particle dark matter models. I will also discuss the prospects for indirect searches to robustly identify or exclude a dark matter signal using upcoming experiments at energies below Fermi (ASTROGAM ) and above Fermi , Magic and H.E.S.S. (CTA, LHAASO ).