Investigating the Elusive Nature of Dark Matter Using Gamma-Ray Detectors
POSTER
Abstract
This project explores the possibility that Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) interact with high-energy gamma rays and could explain the persistent gamma-ray excess observed in the Galactic Center. We analyzed open-source data from NASA's Fermi-LAT and the HAWC observatory using Python-based tools to create flux maps and examine spatial distributions in order to identify potential ALP signatures.
*The Frances Marx Shillinglaw Women in Science Endowed Fund NASA 23-MUREP WCU-0017, No. 80NSSC23M0123: Alumnae Network & Career Resources Program -- STEM support anchored at ASC Goizueta Foundation STEM Success Initiative The Maria Wornom Rippe ’64 STEM Research Endowed Fund
Publication: 1] A. Albert et al. 3HWC: The Third HAWC Catalog of Very-High-Energy Gamma-ray Sources. Astrophys. J., 905(1):76, 2020.
[2] J. B. Dent, B. Dutta, J. L. Newstead, A. Rodriguez, I. M. Shoemaker, Z. Tabrizi, and N. T. Arellano, Gamma ray signals from cosmic ray scattering on axionlike particles, Phys. Rev. D 104, 055044 (2021), arXiv:2012.07930 [hep-ph].
Presenters
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Jibek Ibraeva
- Agnes Scott College