Dark Matter Indirect Searches: some anomalies and many constraints

by Mr Marco CIRELLI (CERN & IPhT CEA/Saclay)

Thursday 8 May 2014, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Rome

131 (INFN edificio C)

 The field of Dark Matter Indirect Detection is in a thriving but somewhat chaotic moment: quite a few hints of possible detection of signals of DM (over a large range of masses and, in general, inferred properties) are confronted with stringent constraints, often based on the same experiments that provide the possible hints. In turn, this spurs a lot of theoretical activity, aimed at phenomenologically analyzing the claims and, perhaps, at embedding them in wider model building. I will briefly review the current status of the searches, mention the most debated hints and sketch the general directions of the theory activity.