Friday, May 3, 2013

1305.0302 (Matthew Wood et al.)

Prospects for Indirect Detection of Dark Matter with CTA    [PDF]

Matthew Wood, Jim Buckley, Seth Digel, Stefan Funk, Daniel Nieto, Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde
We discuss the prospects for indirect detection of dark matter (DM) with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a future ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will be sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to 100 TeV. We consider the detectability of DM annihilation in different astrophysical targets with a focus on the Galactic Center (GC) region. With a deep observation of the GC, CTA will be sensitive to DM particles with mass greater than 100 GeV and an annihilation cross section close to the thermal relic value.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0302

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