Apr 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aipc.1112..157m&link_type=abstract
SCIENCE WITH THE NEW GENERATION OF HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY EXPERIMENTS: Proceedings of the 6th Edition: Bridging the Gap Between G
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Dark Matter, Gamma-Ray, Neutrino, Muon, Pion, And Other Elementary Particles, Cosmic Rays
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The detection of γ-rays, antiprotons and positrons due to pair annihilation of dark matter particles in the Milky Way halo is a viable indirect technique to search for signatures of supersymmetric dark matter where the major challenge is the discrimination of the signal from the background generated by standard production mechanisms. The new PAMELA antiproton data are consistent with the standard secondary production and this allows us to constrain exotic contribution to the spectrum due to neutralino annihilations. In particular, we show that in the framework of minimal supergravity (mSUGRA), in a clumpy halo scenario (with clumpiness factor >=10) and for large values of tan(β)>=55, almost all the parameter space allowed by WMAP is excluded. Instead, the PAMELA positron fraction data exhibit an excess that cannot be explained by secondary production. PPB-BETS and ATIC reported a feature in electron spectrum at a few hundred GeV. The excesses seem to be consistent and imply a source, conventional or exotic, of additional leptonic component. Here we discuss the status of indirect dark matter searches and a perspective for PAMELA and Fermi γ-ray space telescope (Fermi) experiments.
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