Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-11-10
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
24 pages, 9 figures, submitted to JCAP
Scientific paper
We examine the ability for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) to constrain Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) dark matter through a combined analysis of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies. We examine the Lightest Supersymmetric Particles (LSPs) for a set of ~71k experimentally valid supersymmetric models derived from the phenomenological-MSSM (pMSSM). We find that none of these models can be excluded at 95% confidence by the current analysis; nevertheless, many lie within the predicted reach of future LAT analyses. With two years of data, we find that the LAT is currently most sensitive to light LSPs (m_LSP < 50 GeV) annihilating into tau-pairs and heavier LSPs annihilating into b-bbar. Additionally, we find that future LAT analyses will be able to probe some LSPs that form a sub-dominant component of dark matter. We directly compare the LAT results to direct detection experiments and show the complementarity of these search methods.
Bloom Elliott D.
Cotta R. C.
Drlica-Wagner Alex
Hewett JoAnne L.
Murgia Simona
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