2016/03/31 by Jennifer M. Gaskins · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.CO #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/00107514.2016.1175160
32 pages, 6 figures; invited review, accepted to Contemporary Physics
arxiv created 2016/03/31 · arxiv updated 2016/11/23
The indirect detection of dark matter annihilation and decay using observations of photons, charged cosmic rays, and neutrinos offers a promising means of identifying the particle nature of this elusive component of the universe. The last decade has seen substantial advances in observational data sets, complemented by new insights from numerical simulations, which together have enabled for the first time strong constraints on dark matter particle models, and have revealed several intriguing hints of possible signals. This review provides an introduction to indirect detection methods and an overview of recent results in the field.