A Few Interesting Trees in the WIMP Forest

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:10030021,
            doi = {10.48660/10030021},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/10030021},
            author = {Tait, Tim},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {A Few Interesting Trees in the WIMP Forest},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2010},
            month = {mar},
            note = {PIRSA:10030021 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/10030021}}
          }
          

Abstract

Gamma rays from WIMP annihilation are an important signal through which we search for non-gravitational interactions of dark matter. In particular, lines in the energy spectrum of gamma rays provide a signal which is difficult for conventional astrophysics to fake, and are thus promising despite the fact that such lines are generically expect to be suppressed, arising from one loop processes. I will discuss two theories which have an interesting family of gamma ray lines and discuss how such lines can reveal information about the WIMPs and the dark sector.