Dark Matter Searches with H.E.S.S

Abstract

Cosmological measurements indicate that a large component of non-visible gravitating matter is present in the universe. A common hypothesis for its origin is a weakly interacting, massive particle. Annihilations or decays of such particles could produce gamma rays. The H.E.S.S. experiment is an imaging air Cherenkov telescope array located in Namibia which may detect very high energy gamma-rays between 300 GeV and 10 TeV. This talk will present an overview of two recent H.E.S.S. searches for dark matter in the very high energy region, one targeting dwarf galaxies, the other one a cored dark matter profile at the galactic center.

4 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings for the 27th Rencontres de Blois 2015

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• Observations of the Crab Nebula with H.E.S.S
• Search for dark matter annihilation signatures in H.E.S.S. observations of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
• H.E.S.S. constraints on Dark Matter annihilations towards the Sculptor and Carina Dwarf Galaxies
• Fitting formulae for photon spectra from WIMP annihilation
• Photon spectra from WIMP annihilation

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