# Searches for Dark Matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

- Institution: CERN
- Department: EP Seminar
- Speaker: Eric Charles
- Year: 2016
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3007908)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The nature of dark matter is a longstanding enigma of physics; it may consist of particles beyond the Standard Model that are still elusive to experiments. Among indirect search techniques, which look for stable products from the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles, or from axions coupling to high-energy photons, observations of the gamma-ray sky have come to prominence over the last few years, because of the excellent sensitivity and full-sky coverage of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. The LAT energy range from 20 MeV to above 300 GeV is particularly well suited for searching for products of the interactions of dark matter particles. In this talk I will describe targets studied for evidence of dark matter with the LAT, and review the status of searches performed with up to six years of LAT data. I will also discuss the factors that determine the sensitivities of these searches, including the magnitudes of the signals and the relevant backgrounds, considering both statistical and systematic uncertainties. Finally, I will discuss projections of the expected sensitivities with continued LAT data taking..

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## Lectures

1. [Searches for Dark Matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3007908/755ffca318d2), 1 h 10 min (CERN's player)