Mar 27 – 29, 2019
UCLA Faculty Center
US/Pacific timezone

Dark Matter and the Cosmic Ray Antiproton Spectrum

Mar 27, 2019, 11:15 AM
30m
Hacienda Room (UCLA Faculty Center)

Hacienda Room

UCLA Faculty Center

UCLA Faculty Center 480 Charles Young Dr. East Los Angeles, CA USA
oral

Speaker

Dan Hooper (Fermilab/University of Chicago)

Description

The cosmic-ray antiproton spectrum as measured by AMS-02 contains an excess at 10-20 GeV relative to the predictions of standard transport models. I will discuss the systematic uncertainties associated with this signal and the implications of the excess for annihilating dark matter.

Primary author

Dan Hooper (Fermilab/University of Chicago)

Presentation materials