SEARCHING FOR SUSY DARK MATTER IN THE CHARGE -1 SPECTRUM OF AMS-01

by Dr Gary Rybka (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, University of Washington)

Wednesday Dec 5, 2007, 1:30 PM → 3:30 PM Pacific/Honolulu

WAT 417 Library (University of Hawai'i, Manoa)

If dark matter is composed of supersymmetric neutralinos, some of the cosmic ray flux incident on earth could be the products of neutralino self-annihilation. During a ten day space shuttle flight, the AMS-01 detector recorded over 100 million cosmic ray events. This analysis searches for the products of mSUGRA neutralino annihilation in the AMS-01 Z=-1 spectrum, and uses the results to place limits on which supersymmetric and dark matter halo distribution models are compatible with each other.
Organizer: J.G. Learned