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Indirect Searches for Dark Matter: a status review

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-04 v5

Abstract

I review in a schematic way the current status of indirect searches for Dark Matter: I list the main relevant experimental results of the recent years and I discuss the excitements and disappointments that their phenomenological interpretations in terms of almost-standard annihilating Dark Matter have brought along. I then try to individuate the main directions which have emerged from the recent very intense model-building activity. In passing, I list the main sources of uncertainties that affect this kind of searches.

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@article{arxiv.1202.1454,
  title  = {Indirect Searches for Dark Matter: a status review},
  author = {Marco Cirelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.1454},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

32 pages, several figures. Extended version of the text for the Proceedings of Lepton-Photon 2011, Mumbai. Comments and notifications of inaccuracies, oversights or omissions are welcome (except on ref. [154]). v2: refs added. v3: updated bounds and added short discussions of gamma-ray line claims. (v4: just a couple of corrections in refs.) v5: more refs & details added, updated neutrino bounds