A Gamma-ray Window into the Dark Matters of the Universe: Establishing Fermi-LAT’s Legacy

by Milena Crnogorčević (SU Physics)

Tuesday 11 Mar 2025, 13:15 → 14:15 Europe/Stockholm

FD41 (AlbaNova Main Building)

Now in its 17th year of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has delivered some of the most stringent constraints on the nature of dark matter. Searches for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) have been particularly fruitful, leveraging the LAT’s extensive sky coverage and broad energy range to probe dark matter targets such as dwarf spheroidal galaxies, galaxy clusters, and the Galactic Center. In this talk, I will review the LAT's significant achievements in the search for WIMPs and highlight how it has broadened our exploration to include alternative dark matter candidates beyond the WIMP paradigm. Looking ahead, I will address the (exciting) uncertainties and challenges facing space-based gamma-ray astronomy, as well as highlight the promising prospects offered by next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatories.