TY - GEN
T1 - Indirect searches for dark matter in space
T2 - 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009
AU - Coutu, Stéphane
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The rarefied components of the cosmic-ray flux impinging upon the Earth have been a fertile ground to search for particle physics signatures for the ubiquitous dark matter. Thus, in the last two decades, a number of balloon and satellite experiments have undertaken the extremely challenging task of measuring the cosmic positron, antiproton, electron and gamma-ray fluxes. Any dark matterinduced enhancements of these signals are likely to be subtle effects requiring a detailed understanding of instrumental response as well as more mundane astrophysical sources and galactic propagation effects. We review the status of recent, ongoing and future efforts at teasing out a dark matter signal from the antimatter and electromagnetic cosmic fluxes.
AB - The rarefied components of the cosmic-ray flux impinging upon the Earth have been a fertile ground to search for particle physics signatures for the ubiquitous dark matter. Thus, in the last two decades, a number of balloon and satellite experiments have undertaken the extremely challenging task of measuring the cosmic positron, antiproton, electron and gamma-ray fluxes. Any dark matterinduced enhancements of these signals are likely to be subtle effects requiring a detailed understanding of instrumental response as well as more mundane astrophysical sources and galactic propagation effects. We review the status of recent, ongoing and future efforts at teasing out a dark matter signal from the antimatter and electromagnetic cosmic fluxes.
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U2 - 10.1142/9789814374552_0092
DO - 10.1142/9789814374552_0092
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885583373
SN - 9814374512
SN - 9789814374514
T3 - 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity
SP - 912
EP - 914
BT - 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity
PB - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
Y2 - 12 July 2009 through 18 July 2009
ER -