Speaker
Dr
J. Patrick Harding
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Description
Several experiments, including Milagro and IceCube, have reported regions in the TeV sky with an excess of cosmic rays. I will discuss the consistency of these cosmic-ray excesses with dark matter annihilations in a nearby subhalo. The dark matter explanation of the TeV cosmic-ray excess naturally explains both its spatial and spectral features. I will show that the dark matter annihilation rate needed to produce the excess is consistent with current measurements of antiprotons, positrons, and gamma-rays. Additionally, I will show the predicted signatures from the dark matter subhalo in several cosmic-ray channels, several of which are measurable by the next generation of experiments.
Primary author
Dr
J. Patrick Harding
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
