Speaker
Description
Since weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are predicted to exist at the electroweak scale, various experiments—including collider searches, satellite observations, and underground detectors—aim to explore the mass range from GeV to TeV in a complementary approach.
In particular, TeV-scale WIMPs can be effectively probed by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), which offer excellent sensitivity in this energy range. Dark matter searches with IACTs focus on detecting photons produced in the final state of dark matter annihilation, making this approach highly sensitive to measuring the annihilation cross-section. This, in turn, provides valuable insights into the production mechanisms of dark matter in the early universe.
In this talk, I will present an overview of recent progress in WIMP searches using current IACTs and discuss future prospects with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).
