Results from the search for dark matter in the Milky Way with 9 years of data of the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Albert, A.; André, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Anton, G.; Ardid, M.; Aubert, Jean-Jacques; Avgitas, T.; Baret, B.; Barrios-Martí, J.; Basa, S.; Bertín, V.; Biagi, S.; Bormuth, R.; Bourret, S.; Bouwhuis, M. C.; Bruijn, R.; Brünner, J.; Busto, J.; Capone, A.; Caramete, L.; Carr, J.; Celli, S.; Chiarusi, T.; Circella, M.; Coelho, J. A. B.; Coleiro, A.; Coniglione, R.; Costantini, H.; Coyle, P.; Creusot, A.; Deschamps, A.; Bonis, G. De; Distefano, C.; Palma, I. Di; Donzaud, C.; Dornic, D.; Drouhin, D.; Eberl, T.; Bojaddaini, I. El; Elsässer, Dominik; Enzenhöfer, A.; Fusco, L.; Galatà, S.; Geißelsöder, S.; Geyer, K.; Giordano, V.; Gleixner, A.; Glotin, Hervé; Grégoire, T.; Ruiz, R. Gracia; Graf, Κ.; Hallmann, S.; Haren, Hans van; Heijboer, A.; Hello, Y.; Hernández-Rey, J. J.; Hößl, J.; Hofestädt, J.; Hugon, C.; Illuminati, G.; James, C. W.; Jong, M. de; Jongen, M.; Kadler, M.; Kalekin, O.; Katz, U.; Kießling, D.; Kouchner, A.; Kreter, M.; Kreykenbohm, I.; Kulikovskiy, V.; Lachaud, C.; Lahmann, R.; Lefèvre, D.; Leonora, E.; Lotze, Martín; Loucatos, S.; Marcelin, M.; Margiotta, A.; Marinelli, A.; Martínez-Mora, J. A.; Mathieu, A.; Mele, R.; Melis, K.; Michael, T.; Migliozzi, P.; Moussa, A.; Mueller, C. L.; Nezri, E.; Păvălaş, G. E.; Pellegrino, C.; Perrina, C.; Piattelli, P.; Popa, V.; Pradier, T.; Quinn, L.; Racca, C.; Riccobene, G.; Roensch, K.; Sánchez-Losa, A.; Saldaña, M.; Salvadori, I.; Samtleben, D. F. E.; Sanguineti, M.; Sapienza, P.; Schnabel, J.; Schüßler, F.; Seitz, T.; Sieger, C.; Spurio, M.; Stolarczyk, Th.; Taiuti, M.; Tayalati, Y.; Trovato, A.; Tselengidou, M.; Turpin, D.; Tönnis, Christoph; Vallage, B.; Vallée, C.; Elewyck, V. Van; Vivolo, D.; Vizzoca, A.; Wagner, S. J.; Wilms, J.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zúñiga, J.

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.03.063

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“…Improvements from neutrino searches may also be complementary [52][53][54][55], such as those from IceCube [172], ANTARES [173], and SuperK [174].…”

Section: Towards Closing the Wimp Windowmentioning

confidence: 99%

GeV-scale thermal WIMPs: Not even slightly ruled out

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Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) have long reigned as one of the leading classes of dark matter candidates. The observed dark matter abundance can be naturally obtained by freezeout of weakscale dark matter annihilations in the early Universe. This "thermal WIMP" scenario makes direct predictions for the total annihilation cross section that can be tested in present-day experiments. While the dark matter mass constraint can be as high as m χ ≳ 100 GeV for particular annihilation channels, the constraint on the total cross section has not been determined. We construct the first model-independent limit on the WIMP total annihilation cross section, showing that allowed combinations of the annihilationchannel branching ratios considerably weaken the sensitivity. For thermal WIMPs with s-wave 2 → 2 annihilation to visible final states, we find the dark matter mass is only known to be m χ ≳ 20 GeV. This is the strongest largely model-independent lower limit on the mass of thermal-relic WIMPs; together with the upper limit on the mass from the unitarity bound (m χ ≲ 100 TeV), it defines what we call the "WIMP window." To probe the remaining mass range, we outline ways forward.

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“…Improvements from neutrino searches may also be complementary [52][53][54][55], such as those from IceCube [172], ANTARES [173], and SuperK [174].…”

Section: Towards Closing the Wimp Windowmentioning

confidence: 99%

GeV-scale thermal WIMPs: Not even slightly ruled out

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“…7 We infer this from the fact that the limits of Ref. [76]: (i) strengthen at larger DM masses; (ii) are almost identical for µ + µ − and τ + τ − final states, whose resulting ν µ spectra are almost identical at high-energy but differ substantially at low energies; (iii) are much stronger on lepton than on bb final states, and the latter are peaked at lower energies than the former.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…First, we compute the final ν µ spectra from DM annihilations directly into all SM pairs constrained by ANTARES, using the PPPC4DMID [77] with the electroweak corrections switched on [78] (which was used also by the ANTARES collaboration in [76]). We also compute neutrino spectra from one-step cascades in the simple limit M V M p D (see e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Asymmetric dark matter: residual annihilations and self-interactions

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Dark matter (DM) coupled to light mediators has been invoked to resolve the putative discrepancies between collisionless cold DM and galactic structure observations. However, γ-ray searches and the CMB strongly constrain such scenarios. To ease the tension, we consider asymmetric DM. We show that, contrary to the common lore, detectable annihilations occur even for large asymmetries, and derive bounds from the CMB, γ-ray, neutrino and antiproton searches. We then identify the viable space for self-interacting DM. Direct detection does not exclude this scenario, but provides a way to test it.

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“…An example of this last method is offered by the searches for neutrinos in concomitance with GW170817 [4]. In addition, the ANTARES detector is used for particle physics studies, such as neutrino oscillations [5], search for magnetic monopoles [6], and indirect searches for dark matter [7,8].…”

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Long-term monitoring of the ANTARES optical module efficiencies using $$^{40}\mathrm{{K}}$$ 40 K decays in sea water

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Cherenkov light induced by radioactive decay products is one of the major sources of background light for deep-sea neutrino telescopes such as ANTARES. These decays are at the same time a powerful calibration source. Using data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope from mid 2008 to 2017, the time evolution of the photon detection efficiency of optical modules is studied. A modest loss of only 20% in 9 years is observed. The relative time calibration between adjacent modules is derived as well.

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Results from the search for dark matter in the Milky Way with 9 years of data of the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Cited by 76 publications

References 32 publications

GeV-scale thermal WIMPs: Not even slightly ruled out

GeV-scale thermal WIMPs: Not even slightly ruled out

Asymmetric dark matter: residual annihilations and self-interactions

Long-term monitoring of the ANTARES optical module efficiencies using $$^{40}\mathrm{{K}}$$ 40 K decays in sea water

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