Indirect Searches for Dark Matter: a status review
arXiv:1202.1454 · doi:10.1007/s12043-012-0419-x
Abstract
I review in a schematic way the current status of indirect searches for Dark Matter: I list the main relevant experimental results of the recent years and I discuss the excitements and disappointments that their phenomenological interpretations in terms of almost-standard annihilating Dark Matter have brought along. I then try to individuate the main directions which have emerged from the recent very intense model-building activity. In passing, I list the main sources of uncertainties that affect this kind of searches.
32 pages, several figures. Extended version of the text for the Proceedings of Lepton-Photon 2011, Mumbai. Comments and notifications of inaccuracies, oversights or omissions are welcome (except on ref. [154]). v2: refs added. v3: updated bounds and added short discussions of gamma-ray line claims. (v4: just a couple of corrections in refs.) v5: more refs & details added, updated neutrino bounds
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