Indirect Dark Matter Searches and Models

Abstract

Indirect dark matter searches are briefly reviewed. Current experimental data from satellites and Cherenkov telescopes searching for antimatter and gamma rays in galactic and extragalactic regions, are compared with predictions from theoretical models of dark matter. The analysis is focused on WIMPs such as the neutralino and the sneutrino, and a superWIMP such as the gravitino, in several interesting supersymmetric models. In particular, the discussion is carried out in the context of R-parity conserving models such as the MSSM, the NMSSM, and an extended NMSSM, and the R-parity violating model $\mu \nu$SSM.

Proceedings of RICAP 2011; 19 pages, 3 figures; Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (2012)

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• New results from DAMA/LIBRA
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• Results from a Low-Energy Analysis of the CDMS II Germanium Data
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• Gamma-Rays from Decaying Dark Matter
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