Indirect dark matter search with AMS-02
Abstract
Description
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), to be installed on the International Space Station, will provide data on cosmic radiations in the energy range from 0.5 GeV to 3 TeV. The main physics goals are the anti-matter and the dark matter searches. Observations and cosmology indicate that the Universe may include a large amount of unknown Dark Matter. It should be composed of non baryonic Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP). In R-parity conserving models a good WIMP candidate is the lightest SUSY particle. AMS offers a unique opportunity to study simultaneously SUSY dark matter in three decay channels resulting from the neutralino annihilation: e+, antiproton and gamma. Either in the SUSY frame and in alternative scenarios (like extra-dimensions) the expected flux sensitivities as a function of energy in 3 year exposure for the e+/e- ratio, gamma and antiproton yields are presented.
4 pages, 4 figures, presented at the 41st Rencontres de Moriond: Workshop on Cosmology: Contents and Structures of the Universe, La Thuile, Italy, 18-25 Mar 2006
4 pages, 4 figures, presented at the 41st Rencontres de Moriond: Workshop on Cosmology: Contents and Structures of the Universe, La Thuile, Italy, 18-25 Mar 2006