Limits on Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun using the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
Abstract
A search for muon neutrinos originating from dark matter annihilations in the Sun is performed using the data recorded by the ANTARES neutrino telescope from 2007 to 2012. In order to obtain the best possible sensitivities to dark matter signals, an optimisation of the event selection criteria is performed taking into account the background of atmospheric muons, atmospheric neutrinos and the energy spectra of the expected neutrino signals. No significant excess over the background is observed and C.L. upper limits on the neutrino flux, the spin--dependent and spin--independent WIMP-nucleon cross--sections are derived for WIMP masses ranging from GeV to TeV for the annihilation channels and .
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@article{arxiv.1603.02228,
title = {Limits on Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun using the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope},
author = {ANTARES collaboration and S. Adrián-Martínez and A. Albert and M. André and G. Anton and M. Ardid and J. -J. Aubert and T. Avgitas and B. Baret and J. Barrios-Martí and S. Basa and V. Bertin and S. Biagi and R. Bormuth and M. C. Bouwhuis and R. Bruijn and J. Brunner and J. Busto and A. Capone and L. Caramete and J. Carr and S. Celli and T. Chiarusi and M. Circella and A. Coleiro and R. Coniglione and H. Costantini and P. Coyle and A. Creusot and A. Deschamps and G. De Bonis and C. Distefano and C. Donzaud and D. Dornic and D. Drouhin and T. Eberl and I. El Bojaddaini and D. Elsässer and A. Enzenhöfer and K. Fehn and I. Felis and L. A. Fusco and S. Galatà and P. Gay and S. Geißelsöder and K. Geyer and V. Giordano and A. Gleixner and H. Glotin and R. Gracia-Ruiz and K. Graf and S. Hallmann and H. van Haren and A. J. Heijboer and Y. Hello and J. J. Hernández-Rey and J. Hößl and J. Hofestädt and C. Hugon and G. Illuminati and C. W James and M. de Jong and M. Jongen and M. Kadler and O. Kalekin and U. Katz and D. Kießling and A. Kouchner and M. Kreter and I. Kreykenbohm and V. Kulikovskiy and C. Lachaud and R. Lahmann and D. Lefèver and E. Leonora and S. Loucatos and M. Marcelin and A. Margiotta and A. Marinelli and J. A. Martínez-Mora and A. Mathieu and K. Melis and T. Michael and P. Migliozzi and A. Moussa and C. Mueller and E. Nezri and G. E. Păvălaş and C. Pellegrino and C. Perrina and P. Piattelli and V. Popa and T. Pradier and C. Racca and G. Riccobene and K. Roensch and M. Saldana and D. F. E. Samtleben and A. Sánchez-Losa and M. Sanguineti and P. Sapienza and J. Schnabel and F. Schüssler and T. Seitz and C. Sieger and M. Spurio and Th. Stolarczyk and M. Taiuti and C. Tönnis and A. Trovato and M. Tselengidou and D. Turpin and B. Vallage and C. Vallée and V. Van Elewyck and D. Vivolo and S. Wagner and J. Wilms and J. D. Zornoza and J. Zúñiga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02228},
year = {2016}
}
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6 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to Physics letters B