Searches for Particle Dark Matter with the GLAST Large Area Telescope

TL;DR

This paper discusses the GLAST-LAT telescope's potential to detect gamma-ray signals from WIMP dark matter annihilation, providing an overview of ongoing search strategies and expected contributions to dark matter research.

Contribution

It presents the first comprehensive overview of WIMP dark matter searches using the GLAST-LAT gamma-ray telescope.

Findings

Potential detection of gamma-ray signals from WIMP annihilation

Enhanced understanding of dark matter distribution in cosmic sources

Methodological framework for future gamma-ray dark matter searches

Abstract

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of two instruments on the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) mission, scheduled for launch by NASA in 2007, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the approximate energy range from 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV. Annihilation of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP), predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, may give rise to a signal in gamma-ray spectra from many cosmic sources. In this contribution we give an overview of the searches for WIMP Dark Matter performed by the GLAST-LAT collaboration.