As part of the Snowmass process, the Cosmic Frontier Indirect-Detection subgroup (CF2) has drawn on input from the Cosmic Frontier and the broader Particle Physics community to produce this document. The purposes of this report are to identify opportunities for dark matter science through indirect detection, to give an overview of the primary scientific drivers for indirect searches for dark matter, and to survey current and planned experiments that have, as a large part of their scientific program, the goal of searching for indirect (or astrophysical) signatures of dark matter. We primarily address existing experiments with a large U.S. role, or future experiments where a U.S. contribution is sought. We also address the limitations of this technique, and answer the tough questions relevant to this subgroup posed by the HEP community through the Snowmass process.
@article{arxiv.1310.7040,
title = {Cosmic Frontier Indirect Dark Matter Detection Working Group Summary},
author = {J. Buckley and D. F. Cowen and S. Profumo and A. Archer and M. Cahill-Rowley and R. Cotta and S. Digel and A. Drlica-Wagner and F. Ferrer and S. Funk and J. Hewett and J. Holder and B. Humensky and A. Ismail and M. Israel and T. Jeltema and A. Olinto and A. Peter and J. Pretz and T. Rizzo and J. Siegal-Gaskins and A. Smith and D. Staszak and J. Vandenbroucke and M. Wood},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7040},
year = {2013}
}
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Snowmass Indirect Dark Matter Detection CF2 Working Group Summary, 85 pages, 25 figures; a version with higher-resolution figures can be downloaded at http://scipp.ucsc.edu/~profumo/CF2/driverFile.pdf