CosPA 2013

Session

Dark Matter/Cosmic Ray joint session

Nov 14, 2013, 10:40 AM

C'est Si Bon (Pagoda Hotel & Restaurant)

Description

Chair: William Hanlon (University of Utah)

14. Probing the coupling of heavy dark matter to nucleons by detecting neutrino signature from the Earth core

Mr Yen-Hsun Lin (Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

11/14/13, 10:40 AM

Cosmic Rays

oral

We argue that the detection of neutrino signature from the Earth core is an ideal approach for probing the coupling of heavy dark matter ($m_{\chi}>10^{5}$ GeV) to nucleons. We first note that direct searches are not effective for dark matter (DM) in such a mass range. Furthermore the energies of neutrinos arising from DM annihilations inside the Sun cannot exceed a few TeV at the Sun surface...

16. General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) - Hunt for dark matter using cosmic ray antideuterons

Prof. Philip von Doetinchem (University of Hawaii)

11/14/13, 11:05 AM

Cosmic Rays

oral

The GAPS experiment is foreseen to carry out a dark matter search by hunting for low energy cosmic ray antideuterons with a novel detection approach. The theoretically predicted antideuteron flux resulting from secondary interactions of primary cosmic rays, e.g. protons, with the interstellar medium is very low. So far not a single cosmic antideuteron has been detected by any experiment, but...

39. The electron and positron spectra measured by AMS-02

Mr Claudio Corti (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

11/14/13, 11:30 AM

Cosmic Rays

oral

The electron and positron spectra in the primary cosmic rays have been measured during the years with increasing precision by many experiments (Fermi, PAMELA, AMS-01, ATIC, HEAT among the others), up to the latest result of AMS-02. AMS-02 is a large-acceptance spectrometer installed on the International Space Station on May 2011. After two years of data taking, more than 30 billion of events...