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Indirect Dark Matter Detection with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory John Pretz for the HAWC Collaboration Los Alamos National Lab Closing In on Dark Matter - Jan 31, 2013

HAWC Collaboration USA: Los Alamos National Laboratory University of Maryland University of Utah University of New Mexico Michigan State University Pennsylvania State University NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center University of New Hampshire Georgia Tech George Mason University University of California, Irvine Colorado State University Michigan Technological University University of Alabama University of Wisconsin, Madison Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Instituto de Astronomía Instituto de Física Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares Instituto de Geofísica Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas Universidad de Guadalajara Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo CINVESTAV Universidad de Guanajuato UGTO-IF Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo Instituto Politecnico Nacional

Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies and Indirect DM Signatures Dark-matter-dominated satellites of our galaxy (Segue 1 has M  /L  of 3400) Predicted by N-body simulations. Many (~10x) more predicted than observed. – Klypin et al. ApJ. 522:82 (1999) – Brooks et al. arXiv:1209:5394 Essentially no astrophysical gamma-ray production. Limits on gamma-rays can limit DM interaction and decay occurrence. Standard formalism for computing gamma- ray spectrum (Evans et al PRD. 69: (2004).): Segue 1 - SDSS Diemand et al. Nature. 454:735 (2009) 800 kpc

Second generation of technique developed for the Milagro gamma-ray observatory ( ). Re-deploying Milagro PMTs and Front-end electronics Sensitive from 100 GeV to 100 TeV. High altitude (4100 m) site in the mountains of Mexico Large tanks of water covering m 2 area Overall 15x improvement in sensitivity over Milagro. See the Crab at over 5σ every day. Strengths: Extreme high-energy reach. Wide field-of-view to catch transient emission. High Altitude Water Cherenkov Detector

Comparison of Gamma-Ray Detectors Large Aperture/High Duty Cycle Milagro, Tibet, ARGO, HAWC Moderate Area Good Background Rejection Large Duty Cycle/Large Aperture Unbiased Sky Survey Extended sources Transients (GRB’s) Solar physics/space weather Low Energy Threshold EGRET/Fermi Space-based (Small Area) “Background Free” Large Duty Cycle/Large Aperture Sky Survey (< 10 GeV) AGN Physics Transients (GRBs) < 100 GeV High Sensitivity HESS, MAGIC, VERITAS, CTA Large Effective Area Excellent Background Rejection Low Duty Cycle/Small Aperture High Resolution Energy Spectra Studies of known sources Surveys of limited regions of sky at a time

High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory x (meters) y (meters) time (ns)

Photon / Hadron Discrimination Simulated Proton Simulated Photon

Photon / Hadron Discrimination Simulated Proton Simulated Photon

Effective Area Astro. Part. Phys. 35:641 (2012)

Milagro 8-year Skymap Milagro Collaboration: ApJ 700 (2009) New TeV Sources. GeV / TeV asociations are common.

HAWC-300 Sensitivity Conservative estimate of sensitivity. – Simple cuts. – Sub-optimal high- energy cuts due to limited MC. Crab detected at >5σ in one day. 5x γ/cm -2 s -1 sensitivity (over 2 TeV) across 5 sr of the sky in 1 year. Preliminary….

Hadron Rejection Angular Resolution (1 σ) HAWC-300 Sensitivity Preliminary….

HAWC-300 Sensitivity Preliminary….

Sources We Study Active Galaxies Gamma Ray Bursts Pulsar Wind Nebulae Supernova Remnants VLA Image of Cygnus A Massive Star Collapse (Artist) Crab Nebula (Hubble) Crab Nebula (CHANDRA) Tycho SNR (Spitzer/CHANDRA)

Dark Matter Sensitivity Preliminary…. Unitarity: Griest et al. PRL 64:615. (1990) Hui PRL 86:3467 (2001) Harding. UMD Ph.D. thesis (2012) VERITAS: Aliu et al. PRD 85: (2012) Fermi: Ackermann et al. PRL 107: (2011) Spectra: P. Harding.

HAWC as a WIMP Instrument High mass candidates. Survey high-mass sky for DM objects unknown in other wavelengths. Seems the dimmer dSph provide the best targets. Improvement possible from stacking sources. Unitarity arguments against extremely high masses. Surmountable (Profumo, PRD 72:103521, 2005) Probing some of the highest-mass possibilities. Boosts of 10 3 to 10 4 get us to the thermal cross section. Wide-field enables study of Galactic DM profile (under study). Preliminary….

HAWC Status 10% of the array deployed and taking data (HAWC-30) – See the cosmic-ray shadow of the moon. – Good first agreement between data and simulation. – Roughly comparable to Milagro sensitivity. 30% of the array this summer. – Surpass Milagro sensitivity. – See the Crab in ~10 days. 100% in summer 2014.

Conclusions Identified dwarf-spheroidal galaxies provide a unique laboratory to search for dark matter interactions. HAWC’s high-energy sensitivity (above 1 TeV) can be used to probe for dark matter annihilation in these objects. Unbiased sky survey can search for DM annihilation from galaxies with infinite mass-to-light ratio. Complementary limits to Fermi and IACTs. Discovery is possible. HAWC operations begin this summer with the instrument completed in summer 2014.