A Search for Dark Matter in the Galactic Halo with HAWC

Understand

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is a wide field-of-view observatory sensitive to 500 GeV - 100 TeV gamma rays and cosmic rays.

• With its observations over 2/3 of the sky every day, the HAWC observatory is sensitive to a wide variety of astrophysical sources, including possible gamma rays from dark matter.
• Dark matter annihilation and decay in the Milky Way Galaxy should produce gamma-ray signals across many degrees on the sky.
• The HAWC instantaneous field-of-view of 2 sr enables observations of extended regions on the sky, such as those from dark matter in the Galactic halo.