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The New DAMA Dark-Matter Window and Energetic-Neutrino Searches

Recently, the DAMA/LIBRA collaboration has repeated and reinforced their claim to have detected an annual modulation in their signal rate, and have interpreted this observation as evidence for dark-matter particles at the 8.2 sigma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-26 Dan Hooper , Frank Petriello , Kathryn M. Zurek , Marc Kamionkowski

Search for neutrinos from annihilation of captured low-mass dark matter particles in the Sun by Super-Kamiokande

Super-Kamiokande (SK) can search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) by detecting neutrinos produced from WIMP annihilations occurring inside the Sun. In this analysis, we include neutrino events with interaction vertices in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-18 Kamiokande Collaboration , K. Choi , K. Abe , Y. Haga , Y. Hayato , K. Iyogi , J. Kameda , Y. Kishimoto , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , Y. Nakano , S. Nakayama , H. Sekiya , M. Shiozawa , Y. Suzuki , A. Takeda , T. Tomura , R. A. Wendell , T. Irvine , 2 T. Kajita , I. Kametani , 2 K. Kaneyuki , K. P. Lee , Y. Nishimura , 2 K. Okumura , T. McLachlan , 2 L. Labarga , E. Kearns , J. L. Raaf , 4 J. L. Stone , L. R. Sulak , 4 S. Berkman , 5 H. A. Tanaka , 5 S. Tobayama , M. Goldhaber , G. Carminati , W. R. Kropp , S. Mine , A. Renshaw , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , K. S. Ganezer , J. Hill , N. Hong , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , T. Akiri , A. Himmel , K. Scholberg , C. W. Walter , T. Wongjirad , T. Ishizuka , S. Tasaka , J. S. Jang , J. G. Learned , S. Matsuno , S. N. Smith , T. Hasegawa , T. Ishida , T. Ishii , T. Kobayashi , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakamura , Y. Oyama , K. Sakashita , T. Sekiguchi , T. Tsukamoto , A. T. Suzuki , Y. Takeuchi , C. Bronner , S. Hirota , K. Huang , K. Ieki , M. Ikeda , T. Kikawa , A. Minamino , T. Nakaya , K. Suzuki , S. Takahashi , Y. Fukuda , Y. Itow , G. Mitsuka , P. Mijakowski , J. Hignight , J. Imber , C. K. Jung , C. Yanagisawa , H. Ishino , A. Kibayashi , Y. Koshio , T. Mori , M. Sakuda , T. Yano , Y. Kuno , R. Tacik , S. B. Kim , H. Okazawa , Y. Choi , K. Nishijima , M. Koshiba , Y. Totsuka , M. Yokoyama , K. Martens , Ll. Marti , M. R. Vagins , J. F. Martin , P. de Perio , A. Konaka , M. J. Wilking , S. Chen , Y. Zhang , R. J. Wilkes

Indirect Search for Dark Matter from the Galactic Center and Halo with the Super-Kamiokande Detector

We present a search for an excess of neutrino interactions due to dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) annihilating in the galactic center or halo based on the data set of Super-Kamiokande-I, -II, -III and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-10-14 Kamiokande Collaboration , K. Abe , C. Bronner , Y. Haga , Y. Hayato , M. Ikeda , S. Imaizumi , H. Ito , K. Iyogi , J. Kameda , Y. Kataoka , Y. Kato , Y. Kishimoto , Ll. Marti , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , T. Mochizuki , Y. Nagao , M. Nakahata , Y. Nakajima , T. Nakajima , S. Nakayama , T. Okada , K. Okamoto , A. Orii , G. Pronost , H. Sekiya , M. Shiozawa , Y. Sonoda , A. Takeda , A. Takenaka , H. Tanaka , S. Tasaka , T. Tomura , K. Ueno , T. Yano , T. Yokozawa , R. Akutsu , S. Han , T. Irvine , T. Kajita , I. Kametani , K. P. Lee , T. McLachlan , K. Okumura , E. Richard , T. Tashiro , R. Wang , J. Xia , D. Bravo-Berguño , L. Labarga , P. Fernandez , F. d. M. Blaszczyk , J. Gustafson , C. Kachulis , E. Kearns , J. L. Raaf , J. L. Stone , L. R. Sulak , S. Sussman , L. Wan , T. Wester , S. Berkman , S. Tobayama , J. Bian , G. Carminati , M. Elnimr , N. J. Griskevich , W. R. Kropp , S. Locke , S. Mine , A. Renshaw , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , V. Takhistov , P. Weatherly , B. L. Hartfiel , J. Hill , W. E. Keig , N. Hong , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , R. G. Park , T. Akiri , B. Bodur , A. Himmel , Z. Li , E. O'Sullivan , K. Scholberg , C. W. Walter , T. Wongjirad , A. Coffani , O. Drapier , S. El Hedri , A. Giampaolo , M. Gonin , J. Imber , Th. A. Mueller , P. Paganini , B. Quilain , T. Ishizuka , T. Nakamura , J. S. Jang , K. Choi , J. G. Learned , S. Matsuno , S. N. Smith , J. Amey , L. H. V. Anthony , R. P. Litchfield , W. Y. Ma , A. A. Sztuc , Y. Uchida , M. O. Wascko , V. Berardi , M. G. Catanesi , R. A. Intonti , E. Radicioni , N. F. Calabria , L. N. Machado , G. De Rosa , G. Collazuol , F. Iacob , M. Lamoureux , N. Ospina , L. Ludovici , T. Boschi , F. Di Lodovico , S. Molina Sedgwick , S. Zsoldos , Y. Nishimura , S. Cao , M. Friend , T. Hasegawa , T. Ishida , T. Ishii , T. Kobayashi , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakamura , Y. Oyama , K. Sakashita , T. Sekiguchi , T. Tsukamoto , KE. Abe , M. Hasegawa , Y. Isobe , H. Miyabe , Y. Nakano , T. Shiozawa , T. Sugimoto , A. T. Suzuki , Y. Takeuchi , S. Yamamoto , A. Ali , Y. Ashida , T. Hayashino , T. Hiraki , S. Hirota , K. Huang , K. Ieki , M. Jiang , T. Kikawa , M. Mori , A. Murakami , KE. Nakamura , T. Nakaya , N. D. Patel , K. Suzuki , S. Takahashi , K. Tateishi , R. A. Wendell , N. McCauley , P. Mehta , A. Pritchard , K. M. Tsui , Y. Fukuda , Y. Itow , H. Menjo , G. Mitsuka , M. Murase , F. Muto , T. Niwa , K. Sato , T. Suzuki , M. Taani , z M. Tsukada , P. Mijakowski , K. Frankiewicz , J. Hignight , C. K. Jung , X. Li , J. L. Palomino , G. Santucci , C. Vilela , M. J. Wilking , C. Yanagisawa , D. Fukuda , K. Hagiwara , M. Harada , T. Horai , H. Ishino , S. Ito , T. Kayano , A. Kibayashi , Y. Koshio , W. Ma , T. Mori , H. Nagata , N. Piplani , M. Sakuda , S. Seiya , Y. Takahira , C. Xu , R. Yamaguchi , Y. Kuno , G. Barr , D. Barrow , L. Cook , C. Simpson , D. Wark , F. Nova , R. Tacik , J. Y. Yang , A. Cole , S. J. Jenkins , J. McElwee , M. Thiesse , L. Thompson , H. Okazawa , S. B. Kim , Y. Choi , K. Ito , K. Nishijima , K. Iwamoto , M. Koshiba , Y. Suda , M. Yokoyama , R. G. Calland , A. Goldsack , K. Martens , M. Murdoch , Y. Suzuki , M. R. Vagins , D. Hamabe , M. Kuze , Y. Okajima , M. Tanaka , T. Yoshida , M. Inomoto , M. Ishitsuka , R. Matsumoto , K. Ohta , M. Shinoki , J. F. Martin , C. M. Nantais , H. A. Tanaka , T. Towstego , M. Hartz , A. Konaka , P. de Perio , N. W. Prouse , S. Chen , B. D. Xu , Y. Zhang , B. Richards , K. Connolly , R. J. Wilkes , B. Jamieson , J. Walker , P. Giorgio , A. Minamino , K. Okamoto , G. Pintaudi

Interpreting the bounds on Solar Dark Matter induced muons at Super-Kamiokande in the light of CDMS results

We consider the recent limits on dark matter - nucleon elastic scattering cross section from the analysis of CDMS II collaboration using the two signal events observed in CDMS experiment. With these limits we try to interpret the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Abhijit Bandyopadhyay , Sovan Chakraborty , Debasish Majumdar

Neutrinos from WIMP annihilation in the Sun : Implications of a self-consistent model of the Milky Way's dark matter halo

Upper limits on the spin-independent (SI) as well as spin-dependent (SD) elastic scattering cross sections of WIMPs with protons, imposed by the Super-Kamiokande (S-K) upper limit on the neutrino flux from WIMP annihilation in the Sun, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-03 Susmita Kundu , Pijushpani Bhattacharjee

Direct detection data and possible hints for low-mass WIMPs

Possible hints for WIMP dark matter with mass around 10 GeV coming from the DAMA, CoGeNT, and maybe also CRESST experiments are presented, and confronted with constraints from CDMS and XENON data. Focusing on spin-independent (SI)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-29 Thomas Schwetz

An Indirect Search for WIMPs with Super-Kamiokande

A potential source of high energy neutrinos is the annihilation of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) collecting in gravitational potential wells such as the centers of the Earth, the Sun, or the Galaxy. A search for such a WIMP…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Habig

Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation into Neutrinos with Super-Kamiokande

This work presents indirect searches for dark matter (DM) as WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) using neutrino data recorded by the Super-Kamiokande detector from 1996 to 2014. The results of the search for WIMP-induced neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-27 Katarzyna Frankiewicz

Search for Dark Matter WIMPs using Upward Through-going Muons in Super-Kamiokande

We present the results of indirect searches for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with 1679.6 live days of data from the Super-Kamiokande detector using neutrino-induced upward through-going muons. The search is performed by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 Kamiokande Collaboration , S. Desai , Y. Ashie , S. Fukuda , Y. Fukuda , K. Ishihara , Y. Itow , Y. Koshio , A. Minamino , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , T. Namba , R. Nambu , Y. Obayashi , N. Sakurai , M. Shiozawa , Y. Suzuki , H. Takeuchi , Y. Takeuchi , S. Yamada , M. Ishitsuka , T. Kajita , K. Kaneyuki , S. Nakayama , A. Okada , T. Ooyabu , C. Saji , M. Earl , E. Kearns , J. L. Stone , L. R. Sulak , C. W. Walter , W. Wang , M. Goldhaber , T. Barszczak , D. Casper , J. P. Cravens , W. Gajewski , W. R. Kropp , S. Mine , D. W. Liu , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , C. W. Sterner , M. R. Vagins , K. S. Ganezer , J. Hill , W. E. Keig , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , R. W. Ellsworth , S. Tasaka , G. Guillian , A. Kibayashi , J. G. Learned , S. Matsuno , D. Takemori , M. D. Messier , Y. Hayato , A. K. Ichikawa , T. Ishida , T. Ishii , T. Iwashita , J. Kameda , T. Kobayashi , T. Maruyama , K. Nakamura , K. Nitta , Y. Oyama , M. Sakuda , Y. Totsuka , A. T. Suzuki , M. Hasegawa , K. Hayashi , T. Inagaki , I. Kato , H. Maesaka , T. Morita , T. Nakaya , K. Nishikawa , T. Sasaki , S. Ueda , S. Yamamoto , T. J. Haines , S. Dazeley , S. Hatakeyama , R. Svoboda , E. Blaufuss , J. A. Goodman , G. W. Sullivan , D. Turcan , K. Scholberg , A. Habig , C. K. Jung , T. Kato , K. Kobayashi , M. Malek , C. Mauger , C. McGrew , A. Sarrat , E. Sharkey , C. Yanagisawa , T. Toshito , C. Mitsuda , K. Miyano , T. Shibata , Y. Kajiyama , Y. Nagashima , M. Takita , M. Yoshida , H. I. Kim , H. Okazawa , T. Ishizuka , Y. Choi , H. K. Seo , Y. Gando , T. Hasegawa , K. Inoue , J. Shirai , A. Suzuki , M. Koshiba , T. Hashimoto , Y. Nakajima , K. Nishijima , T. Harada , H. Ishino , M. Morii , R. Nishimura , Y. Watanabe , D. Kielczewska , J. Zalipska , R. Gran , K. K. Shiraishi , K. Washburn , R. J. Wilkes

A novel way of constraining WIMPs annihilations in the Sun: MeV neutrinos

Annihilation of dark matter particles accumulated in the Sun would produce a flux of high-energy neutrinos whose prospects of detection in neutrino telescopes and detectors have been extensively discussed in the literature. However, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Nicolas Bernal , Justo Martin-Albo , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

Halo-independent analysis of direct detection data for light WIMPs

We present a halo-independent analysis of direct detection data on "light WIMPs," i.e. weakly interacting massive particles with mass close to or below 10 GeV/c^2. We include new results from silicon CDMS detectors (bounds and excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Eugenio Del Nobile , Graciela B. Gelmini , Paolo Gondolo , Ji-Haeng Huh

Can WIMP Spin Dependent Couplings explain DAMA data, in light of Null Results from Other Experiments?

We examine whether the annual modulation found by the DAMA dark matter experiment can be explained by Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), in light of new null results from other experiments. CDMS II has already ruled out most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christopher Savage , Paolo Gondolo , Katherine Freese

Constraining the Spin-Independent WIMP-Nucleon Coupling from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates for Dark Matter. For understanding the properties of WIMPs and identifying them among new particles produced at colliders (hopefully in the near future),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-17 Manuel Drees , Chung-Lin Shan

A New Possible Way to Explain the DAMA Results

At present there is an effort to reconcile the results of the DAMA experiment with those from other Dark Matter experiments such as CoGeNT, CRESST, CDMS, and all LXe experiments. The author suggests a new model describing the Dark Matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-26 J. Va'vra

Limits on the WIMP-nucleon scattering cross-section from neutrino telescopes

Neutrino-telescopes like Super-Kamiokande and IceCube have started to explore the neutrino fluxes from WIMP annihilations in the Sun. The non-observation of a signal can put constraints on the WIMP properties. We here focus on the neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 G. Wikström , J. Edsjö

New Sensitivity to Solar WIMP Annihilation using Low-Energy Neutrinos

Dark matter particles captured by the Sun through scattering may annihilate and produce neutrinos, which escape. Current searches are for the few high-energy neutrinos produced in the prompt decays of some final states. We show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-06 Carsten Rott , Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins , John F. Beacom

Limits on spin-independent couplings of WIMP dark matter with a p-type point-contact germanium detector

We report new limits on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon interaction cross-section using 39.5 kg-days of data taken with a p-type point-contact germanium detector of 840 g fiducial mass at the Kuo-Sheng Reactor Neutrino Laboratory. Crucial to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-05-29 TEXONO Collaboration

Differentiating hidden sector dark matter from light WIMPs with Germanium detectors

Light WIMP dark matter and hidden sector dark matter have been proposed to explain the DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESST-II data. Both of these approaches feature spin independent elastic scattering of dark matter particles on nuclei. Light WIMP dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-15 R. Foot

Limits on dark matter WIMPs using upward-going muons in the MACRO detector

We perform an indirect search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) using the MACRO detector to look for neutrino-induced upward-going muons resulting from the annihilation of WIMPs trapped in the Sun and Earth. The search is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-06 The MACRO Collaboration , M. Ambrosio et al

Neutrinos from Inert Doublet Dark Matter

We investigate the signatures of neutrinos produced in the annihilation of WIMP dark matter in the Earth, the Sun and at the Galactic centre within the framework of the Inert Doublet Model and extensions. We consider a dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-05 Sarah Andreas , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Quentin Swillens