Searching for dark matter with cosmic gamma rays / Dr. Andrea Albert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albert, Andrea, author.

Contributor:

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 3.

IOP concise physics

[IOP release 3]

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dark matter (Astronomy).

Gamma rays.

Nuclear astrophysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (chiefly color).

Distribution:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2016]

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2016]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

text file

Biography/History:

Andrea first became interested in particle astrophysics while studying at Rice University. She earned her doctorate at The Ohio State University where she performed searches for dark matter signals using the Fermi Large Area Telescope. While a postdoc at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, she was tapped to be the Dark Matter and New Physics working group coordinator within the Fermi LAT Collaboration. She is currently the Marie Curie Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory where she continues the hunt for dark matter signals using both the Fermi LAT and the HAWC Observatory. Andrea also enjoys Jazzercise and hanging out at home with her husband Dylan and their two cats Ben and Marty.

Summary:

"Searching for Dark Matter with Cosmic Gamma Rays" summarizes the evidence for dark matter and what we can learn about its particle nature using cosmic gamma rays. It has almost been 100 years since Fritz Zwicky first detected hints that most of the matter in the Universe that doesn't directly emit or reflect light. Since then, the observational evidence for dark matter has continued to grow. Dark matter may be a new kind of particle that is governed by physics beyond our Standard Model of particle physics. In many models, dark matter annihilation or decay produces gamma rays. There are a variety of instruments observing the gamma-ray sky from tens of MeV to hundreds of TeV. Some make deep, focused observations of small regions, while others provide coverage of the entire sky. Each experiment offers complementary sensitivity to dark matter searches in a variety of target sizes, locations, and dark matter mass scales. We review results from recent gamma-ray experiments including anomalies some have attributed to dark matter. We also discuss how our gamma-ray observations complement other dark matter searches and the prospects for future experiments.

Contents:

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Observational and theoretical motivation for particle dark matter

2.1. Gravitational evidence for dark matter halos

2.2. Weakly interacting massive particles

2.3. Other particle dark matter candidates

3. Investigating dark matter with cosmic gamma rays

3.1. Calculating the expected gamma-ray flux

4. Recent results and unexplained anomalies from gamma-ray dark matter searches

4.1. Searches for axion signatures

4.2. Search for gamma-ray spectral lines

4.3. Searches for dark matter subhalos

4.4. Galaxy clusters

4.5. EGRET GeV excess

4.6. The galactic center

4.7. Milky Way dwarf galaxies

4.8. Overview of recent results

5. Future outlook

5.1. New instruments and targets

5.2. Complementarity with terrestrial searches

6. Conclusion.

Notes:

"Version: 20160801"--Title page verso.

"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 2, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781681742694

9781681742717

OCLC:

957689854

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.