# Searches for Particle Dark Matter with gamma-rays.

- Institution: CERN
- Department: EP Seminar
- Speaker: Jan Conrad
- Year: 2012
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3014214)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
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In this contribution I review the present status and discuss some prospects for indirect detection of dark matter with gamma-rays. Thanks to the Fermi Large Area Telescope, searches in gamma-rays have reached sensitivities that allow to probe the most interesting parameter space of the weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) paradigm. This gain in sensitivity is naturally accompanied by a number of detection claims or indications, the most recent being the claim of a line feature at a dark matter particle mass of ∼ 130 GeV at the Galactic Centre, a claim which requires confirmation from the Fermi-LAT collaboration and other experiments, for example HESS II or the planned Gamma-400 satellite. Predictions for the next generation air Cherenkov telescope, Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), together with forecasts on future Fermi-LAT constraints arrive at the exciting possibility that the cosmological benchmark cross-section could be probed from masses of a few GeV to a few TeV. Consequently, non-detection would pose a challenge to the WIMP paradigm, but the reached sensitivities also imply that --optimistically-- a detection is in the cards..

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## Lectures

1. [Searches for Particle Dark Matter with gamma-rays.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3014214/5398a96daa83), 1 h 12 min (CERN's player)