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Description
The nature of dark matter is now ubiquitous as one of the greatest puzzles to modern physics. Various efforts exist to narrow down its nature, including indirect direct detection experiments. These experiments presume dark matter particles annihilate, decay or through other means produce standard model particles that we can observe and relate back to the dark matter physics involved. One such planned experiment involves the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). CTAO offers the ability to constrain some areas of the dark matter parameter space by over a magnitude and possibly a 2-3 sigma detection if one presumes standard WIMP dark matter parameter values. In this talk, I detail how we can transform gamma ray event data into information on dark matter parameters, and how one can do this without specifying a particular dark matter model. Despite the lack of initial model, the results of this analysis can be used to possibly exclude dark matter models given future data.
