Indirect searches for dark matter with the Fermi LAT instrument

Abstract

In this review the current status of several searches for particle dark matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope instrument is presented. In particular, the current limits on the weakly interacting massive particles, obtained from the analyses of gamma-rays and cosmic-ray electron/positron data, will be illustrated.

Proceeding of the 2013 Lepton Photon Conference; 22 pages; 11 figures

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