WIMP searches with AMANDA-B10
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We report on the search for nearly vertical up-going muon neutrinos from WIMP annihilations in the center of the Earth with the AMANDA-B10 detector. The whole data sample collected in 1997, 10^9 events, has been analyzed and a final sample of 15 up-going events is found in a restricted zenith angular region where a signal from WIMP annihilations is expected. A preliminary upper limit at 90% confidence level on the annihilation rate of WIMPs in the center of the Earth is presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0012285,
title = {WIMP searches with AMANDA-B10},
author = {The AMANDA Collaboration and X. Bai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0012285},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures, presented by J. Edsjo. Contribution to the proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter (IDM2000) in York, in press