Dark Matter Searches with GLAST

E. Nuss (1)

1 LPTA - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Astroparticules

The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled to be launched in fall 2007, is the next generation satellite for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), GLAST main instrument, with a wide field of view (> 2 sr), a large effective area (> 8000 cm^2 at 1 GeV) and 20 MeV - 300 GeV energy range, will provide excellent high energy gamma-ray observations for Dark Matter searches. In this paper we examine the potential of the LAT to detect gamma-rays coming from WIMPS annihilation in the context of supersymmetry. As an example, two search regions are investigated: the galactic center and the galactic satellites.

Domaines: Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

E. Nuss. Dark Matter Searches with GLAST. Advances in Space Research, 2007, 41/12, pp.2029-2031. ⟨10.1016/j.asr.2007.03.045⟩. ⟨in2p3-00148883⟩