Download or read book The Search for Dark Matter in the Milky Way Halo with Fermi written by Aaron J. Sander and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation describes the search for dark matter with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. We search for dark matter by looking for the annihilation or decay of dark matter into gamma-rays. We construct models for the astrophysical backgrounds and perform a likelihood analysis to calculate the 95% confidence upper limits on the annihilation cross section vs. mass for the annihilation into b-bbar and tau+ tau- channels. We also calculate the 95% confidence lower limits on the dark matter decay lifetime vs. mass for the mu- mu+ decay channel.