[Hps] Interesting Result at Dark Matter 2014

Jaros, John A. john at slac.stanford.edu
Mon Mar 3 17:24:34 EST 2014


The Hooper/Finkbeiner analysis  using Fermi data has been improved, and looks at the least interesting.
They see 1-10 GeV gammas from the exact galactic center. Signal is consistent with coming from 35-40 GeV DM annihilating into b bbar, assuming reasonable relic density, some galactic cuspiness, and conventional  DM fluxes. A pulsar explanation can't be completely ruled out, but is seen as unlikely. Paper is on the arXiv (1402.6703v1). The Fermi collab doesn't make the same claims, but doesn't deny them either, and certainly will look harder.

Talks from Hooper and Linden were given Thursday morning, and can be found here:  https://hepconf.physics.ucla.edu/dm14/agenda.html

John






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