Astrophysical search strategies for accelerator blind dark matter
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A weakly interacting dark-matter particle may be difficult to discover at an accelerator because it either (1) is too massive, (2) has no standard-model gauge interactions, or (3) is almost degenerate with other states. In each of these cases, searches for annihilation products in the Galactic halo are useful probes of dark-matter properties. Using the example of supersymmetric dark matter, I discuss how astrophysical searches for dark matter may provide discovery and mass information inaccessible to collider physics programs such as the Tevatron and LHC.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9808052,
title = {Astrophysical search strategies for accelerator blind dark matter},
author = {James D. Wells},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9808052},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, Talk given at 3rd International Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe (DM 98), Santa Monica, CA, 18-20 Feb 1998