Searching for TeV dark matter by atmospheric Čerenkov techniques

1992/08/27 by M. Urban, A. Bouquet, B. Degrange +4 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #astro-ph #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(92)91494-t

published as Phys.Lett. B293 (1992) 149-156 · 10 pp, LaTex (3 figures available by e-mail) PAR-LPTHE 92XX

arxiv created 1992/08/27 · openalex publication_date 1992/10/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

There is a growing interest in the possibility that dark matter could be formed of weakly interacting particles with a mass in the 100 GeV - 2 TeV range, and supersymmetric particles are favorite candidates. If they constitute the dark halo of our Galaxy, their mutual annihilations produce energetic gamma rays that could be detected using existing atmospheric uCerenkov techniques.

Citations

• Detection of Cosmic Dark Matter

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