Monday
3 May, 2:30 pm, Curia II
Dan
Hooper (U. of Oxford, UK)
@: hooper AT
astro.ox.ac.uk
Recent Developments
in the Indirect Detection of Dark Matter
I will discuss recent observations
which may suggest the
presence of particle dark matter in
our galaxy. These observations
include Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescope
(ACT) observations of the Galactic
Center and 511 keV line emission from
the Galactic Bulge. I will discuss
these observations in the context of
popular particle dark matter
candidates such as neutralinos and
Kaluza-Klein dark matter particles and
discuss the 511 keV emission in the
context of light (1 MeV-1 GeV)
particles such as axinos in R-parity
violating models. I will also
revisit the excess of cosmic positrons
observed by the HEAT experiment and
discuss its implications for particle
dark matter.