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Indirect Detection of WIMPs

1994/03/24 by Marc Kamionkowski, Kamionkowski, Marc
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #astro-ph #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9403357

(12 pages available as a uuencoded, tarred, compressed PostScript file), IASSNS-HEP-94/8

arxiv created 1994/03/24 · openalex publication_date 1994/03/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

I review several proposed techniques for indirect detection of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the halo. I focus on distinctive signatures from cosmic-ray positrons, antiprotons, and gamma rays produced by annihilation of WIMPs in the galactic halo. (To appear in Particle Astrophysics, Atomic Physics, and Gravitation, proceedings of the the XIVth Moriond Workshop, Villars sur Ollon, Switzerland, Jan. 22-29, 1994.)

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