Indirect Dark Matter Searches with MAGIC: The Perseus Cluster

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Seminar (IFAE)

Seminar

IFAE
Jelena Aleksic (IFAE), Joern Lange (IFAE Barcelona), John E Ward (IFAE)
Description
Since the beginning of operation, the MAGIC Cherenkov telescopes have been a powerful tool for exploring the Physics frontier, addressing topics such as the nature of dark matter and its distribution in the Universe, or the search for quantum gravitational effects in photon propagation. I will focus on an Indirect Dark Matter search performed with MAGIC on the Perseus Cluster and argue how clusters of galaxies can be used for exploring the parameter space of decaying dark matter candidates. We analyze this data applying a likelihood analysis that has been optimized for exploiting the spectral and morphological features expected in the dark matter signal for the Perseus Cluster. This has allowed us to reach sensitivities to decay lifetimes into bb_bar of 10^25 s for dark matter masses of 1 TeV, almost one order of magnitude stronger than previous MAGIC results.
Participants
  • Alejandro Belloti
  • Antonio Pineda
  • Armando Quispe
  • Bruno Bourguille
  • Daniel Moreno
  • Daniele Ninci
  • David Vázquez Furelos
  • de la Rosa Gloria
  • Eduard Masso
  • Enrique Fernandez
  • Eric Peregrina
  • Hassan Tarek
  • Imma Riu
  • Javier Rico
  • Jelena Aleksic
  • Joaquim Palacio Navarro
  • John E Ward
  • Judit Prat
  • Juli Mundet
  • Lluïsa-Maria Mir
  • Machiel Kolstein
  • Manel Martinez
  • Maria Manna
  • mariano quiros
  • Matteo Cavalli-Sforza
  • Mirkoantonio Casolino
  • Oscar Blanch Bigas
  • Oscar Martinez
  • Otger Ballester
  • Paolo Cumani
  • Rafael Garcia
  • Rafel Escribano
  • Ramon Miquel
  • Scott Griffiths
  • Xabier Llobregat