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SUMMARY:Closing In on Thermal Relics with High-Energy Gamma-Ray for Dark M
 atter searches
DTSTART:20260922T060000Z
DTEND:20260922T070000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Tomohiro Inada\n\nTitle: Closing In on Thermal Relic
 s with High-Energy Gamma-Ray for Dark Matter searchesTime: 14:00-15:00 (UT
 C+8)\, 22 September 2026\, TuesdayHost: Hao ZhouJoin Tencent Meeting：htt
 ps://meeting.tencent.com/dm/r7mbEZhOrREYMeeting ID: 161428684 (no password
 )\nAbstract：Identifying the particle nature of dark matter remains a cen
 tral challenge in fundamental physics. Weakly interacting massive particle
 s (WIMPs) are among the leading candidates. At TeV-scale masses\, Imaging 
 Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) search for very-high-energy gamma
  rays from dark matter annihilation in dense regions such as the Galactic 
 Center. By probing the annihilation cross section\, these observations tes
 t whether WIMPs could have originated as thermal relics in the early Unive
 rse and complement collider and underground searches.In this talk\, I will
  review recent WIMP searches with current-generation IACTs\, and present i
 nitial results from LST-1\, completed in 2018 and now taking data on La Pa
 lma. LST-1 is the first Large-Sized Telescope built for the Cherenkov Tele
 scope Array Observatory (CTAO)\, a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray 
 observatory with a northern array on La Palma\, Spain\, and a southern arr
 ay near Paranal\, Chile. Together\, the arrays will cover energies from ab
 out 20 GeV to 300 TeV with sensitivity up to ten times better than current
  instruments. CTAO will also play a key role in multi-messenger astronomy 
 by combining gamma-ray observations with information from neutrinos and gr
 avitational waves. I will discuss prospects for stereoscopic observations 
 with multiple LSTs and CTAO searches for TeV-scale dark matter.\nBiography
 :Dr. Tomohiro Inada is an Assistant Professor at Kyushu University and an 
 experimental physicist working at the interface between particle physics a
 nd astrophysics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 202
 0 and subsequently held positions as a Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar at Tsinghua
  University and an Experimental Physics Research Fellow at CERN. His work 
 has received national recognition through several early-career awards from
  both astroparticle physics and high-energy physics communities in Japan\,
  in addition to Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Finalist Award at Tsinghua
  University. His research uses very-high-energy gamma rays to investigate 
 dark matter and physics beyond the Standard Model. He led dark-matter sear
 ch at the Galactic Centre　with the MAGIC telescopes in La Palma\, Canary
  islands\, and now coordinates dark-matter physics within CTAO\, which is 
 the next-generation of high-energy gamma-ray observatory. \n\n \n \n\nh
 ttps://indico-tdli.sjtu.edu.cn/event/5304/
LOCATION:Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S4F-SW - Open Area (Tsung-Dao Lee Institu
 te)
URL:https://indico-tdli.sjtu.edu.cn/event/5304/
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