Dark matter bounds from direct and indirect searches – Aravind Natarajan
Date: Tue. November 22nd, 2011, 11:30 am-12:30 pmLocation: Rockefeller 221
I discuss ways of constraining dark matter properties using a combination of direct and indirect dark matter measurements. The DAMA, CoGeNT, and CRESST experiments have obtained tentative evidence for low mass WIMPs. I show that the CMB is a clean probe of low mass WIMPs, and the WMAP+SPT measurements place competitive bounds on light WIMPs. I discuss how these dark matter bounds may be further improved by including other data sets, such as counts of galaxy clusters.