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T: Teilchenphysik

T 501: Kosmische Strahlung VII

T 501.6: Talk

Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 15:15–15:30, TU H105

Towards Dark Matter Searches with the MAGIC Telescope — •Hendrik Bartko — MPI für Physik, München

MAGIC is a 17m diameter Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope installed on the Canary Island La Palma. The telescope is designed for gamma-ray astronomy in the 30 GeV to 30 TeV energy range. SUSY models predict candidate particles for dark matter, that might annihilate into gamma rays. Their predicted energy is in the accessible range of the MAGIC telescope. The expected gamma fluxes depend strongly on the density profiles in the innermost regions of the dark matter halos and on their angular extension.

The prospects and strategies for indirect Dark Matter searches with the MAGIC Telescope will be described. The observability and flux expectations from possible targets will be discussed.