Search for Dark Matter in the Sky
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Can we learn about New Physics with astronomical and astro-particle data? Since its launch in 2008, the Large Area Telescope, onboard of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has detected the largest amount of gamma rays in the 20MeV 300GeV energy range and electrons + positrons in the 7 GeV1 TeV range. These impressive statistics allow one to perform a very sensitive indirect experimental search for dark matter. I will present the latest results on these searches and the comparison with LHC searches.
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