Radio signals of particle dark matter

Abstract

In most of particle dark matter (DM) models, the DM candidate injects sizable fluxes of high-energy electrons and positrons through its annihilations or decays. Emitted in regions with magnetic field, they in turn give raise to a synchrotron radiation, which typically covers radio and infrared bands. We discuss the possibility of detecting signatures of Galactic and extra-galactic DM in the total intensity and small-scale anisotropies of the radio background.

5 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the 2011 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2011), Grenoble, July 21-27, 2011