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The next decade will definitively test the “minimal” dark matter
paradigm. This is the attractive idea that extending the Standard
Model with a new electroweak multiplet allows for a simple resolution
of the Universe’s missing mass puzzle by a thermal relic particle.
We project CTAO limits for all real SU(2) multiplets consistent with
unitarity and find that with 500 hours of Galactic Center data, all
can be excluded, except for the most massive, the 13-plet, as a
borderline case. I also present new experimental limits for wino
(3-plet) and 5-plet dark matter from the VERITAS IACT’s observations
of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). The former are comparable to
other dSphs limits and suggest that a collaboration among existing
experiments may exclude the thermal relic wino before the completion
of CTAO South.
