GLAST Large Area Telescope:

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GLAST Large Area Telescope Dark Matter and New
Physics Science Group Co Conveners Elliott
Bloom SLAC/SU Aldo Morselli INFN Rome2 GLAST
LAT Collab. Meeting SLAC August 31, 2005
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Dark Matter and Exotic Physics
Responsibilities Search for signatures of dark
matter, extradimensions (e.g. KK graviton
decay), quantum gravity dispersion effects,
etc. Coordinators Elliott Bloom Aldo
Morselli Members 39 (Aug. 05)
Eric Nuss Takashi Ohsugi Piergiorgio
Picozza Frederic Piron Carlotta Pittori Silvia
Rainò Luis Reyes Steve Ritz Eduardo do Couto e
Silva Tadayuki Takahashi Lawrence L. Wai Ping
Wang Brian Winer Marcus Ziegler
Ronaldo Bellazzini Lars Bergstrom Giovanni
Bignami Pasquale Blasi Elliott Bloom Toby
Burnett Giovanni Busetto Per Carlson James
Chiang Johann Cohen-Tanugi Alessandro
deAngelis Joakim Edsjö
Piergiorgio Fusco Fabio Gargano Nico
Giglietto Gary Godfrey Sylvain Guiriec Richard E.
Hughes Michael Kuss Luca Latronico Andrea
Lionetto Mario Nicola Mazziotta Alex Moiseev Igor
Moskalenko
Group web page http//www-glast.slac.stanford.e
du/ScienceWorkingGroups/DarkMatter/ Wiki Page
http//confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/SCIGRP
S/DarkMatterandExoticPhysics
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GLAST LAT DM Exotic Physics Group
Workshop July 11-13, 2005 (2.5 day
meeting) Welcome - Steve Kahn, Deputy Director,
KIPAC (10 min)          GLAST Overview - Elliott
Bloom (40 min)    Current GLAST related DM work
in Italy - Aldo Morselli (40 min) Report on the
DC-2 meeting in Italy, and DC2 plans - Richard
Dubois (40 min) Dark Matter Overview I Theory -
Ted Baltz (40 min) Dark Matter experimental
Challenges - Larry Wai (40 min)           Extra
Dimension overview Theory - Andrea Lionetto
Lorentz Invariance Tests Theory - Michael Peskin
(40 min) Experimental challenges for Extra
Dimensions - Eduardo do Couto e Silva (40
min) Experimental Challenges for Lorentz
Invariance - Jeff Scargle (40 min) Modeling the
diffuse emission of the Galactic center and at
high latitudes - Seth Digel (40 min) Studies of
diffuse emission with GALPROP - Igor Moskalenko
(45 min) Gamma-ray observations of the Galactic
center and inner Galaxy - Olaf Reimer (45
min) The search for DM in M31 using CELESTE -
Eric Nuss (30 min) Energy Cross Calibration of
GLAST with ACTs - Lester Miller (30 min) Limits
on the baryon asymmetry in the universe from the
low energy (lt100 MeV) extra galactic background
and prospects for GLAST. - Gary Godfrey More
talks or discussion. (1.5 hours)  Wednesday -
July 13, 20059AM - 1200 PM      
for slides, see Confluence page or
http//people.roma2.infn.it/glast/DM_Workshop05
/
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SLAC, DMNP, 30/08/05 Minutes several
presentations E.Bloom Report from the
Science Coordinators meeting A.Morselli
Multiwavelength need for the DMNP Working group
E.Baltz Observing Dark Matter with
GLAST T.Kamae Development of the new pp
inclusive cross section parameterization
G.Bignami Looking for light pseudoscalar
bosons in Gamma-Rays from Binary Pulsars P.Wang
New Tool for generating dark matter clumps
for Science Tools for slides, see Confluence
page or http//people.roma2.infn.it/glast/DM_Co
ll_M_Aug_05/
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Plans for Papers

• Papers in process, papers planned for the next
  year, paper ideas for year 1 of operations
  which are proposed to be Category 1 and which are
  Category 2
• Currently most papers planned for pre - launch,
  clearly not using GLAST data, will be category II
  (III) papers. A number have already been
  published.
• Search for Supersymmetric Dark Matter with GLAST
  A.Morselli, A.Lionetto, A.Cesarini, F.Fucito,
  P.Ullio, Nucl. Phy. B 122B (2003) 413-416
• The Galactic Center as a Dark Matter Gamma-Ray
  SourceA.Cesarini, F.Fucito, A.Lionetto,
  A.Morselli, P.Ullio, Astrop. Phy. 267-285
• Multifrequency analysis of neutralino dark matter
  annihilation in Coma cluster, S.Colafrancesco,
  S.Profumo, P.Ullio, Astro-ph/0507575
• Diffuse inverse Compton and synchrotron emission
  from dark matter annihilations in galactic
  satellites. T. Baltz, L. Wai, Phys.Rev. D70
  (2004) 023512
• Repeat De Boers paper with large group of LAT
  collaborators. Astro-ph/0412620 v1 23 Dec 2004,
  Indirect Evidence for WIMP Annihilation from
  Diffuse Galactic Gamma Rays
• Possible category I is extensive and careful
  study of DM limits from all known experiments as
  a precursor to launch and what kind of limits
  GLAST can set.
• After launch during 1st year paper on DM limits
  set by GLAST using pre-launch paper as a guide.

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Plans for the near future for the end of
September Provide to the MultiWavelengh
group the MW need of our group overlap with
other groups we will define interface persons (
that will participate to other groups ) and they
will notify news from that groups. We need
interface persons at least for Diffuse
(Galactic Extragalactic) and Molecular Clouds
Larry Way Unidentified Sources, Population
Studies, and Other Galaxies TBD Gamma-Ray
Bursts Nicola Giglietto Catalogs TBD
Checkout 3 "test WIMP clump" at high latitude
(1month "practice" data including 3rd egret
catalog, diffuse, etc.)