Search for dark matter annihilation in the earth using the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Albert, A.; André, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Anton, G.; Ardid, M.; Aubert, J.J.; 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.; Felis, I.; 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.dark.2017.04.005

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“…in the σ SI -σ A v plane for a WIMP mass of 50 GeV. As shown in Figure 1, the capture rate for the WIMP masses upper limits from SK [27] for τ + and τ − (brown), IceCube [7] τ + and τ − (blue) and ANTARES [6] τ + and τ − (black). Also, shown are the limits obtained from DARKSIDE [28] (dark green dotted), LUX (cyan), XENON-1T [29] (brown) and PANDA [30] (light green dotted).…”

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“…These neutrinos can be detected in the neutrino detectors, providing an indirect evidence for the existence of WIMP dark matter. Such indirect detection signals for WIMP in the sun [4][5][6] and earth [6,7] have been looked for in the currently running neutrino detectors such as IceCube [4], Antares [6] and Super-Kamiokande (SK) [5]. Since none of the detectors have recorded any positive signal for WIMP annihilations in the sun and earth, they have given exclusion limits in the WIMP scattering cross-section -WIMP mass space.…”

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Prospects of indirect searches for dark matter annihilations in the earth with ICAL@INO

Tiwari

Choubey

Ghosh

2019

J. High Energ. Phys.

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We study the prospects of detecting muon events at the upcoming Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) detector to be built at the proposed India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) facility due to neutrinos arising out of annihilation of Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMP) in the centre of the earth. The atmospheric neutrinos coming from the direction of earth core presents an irreducible background. We consider 50kt × 10 years of ICAL running and WIMP masses between 10-100 GeV and present 90 % C.L. exclusion sensitivity limits on σ SI which is the WIMP-nucleon Spin Independent (SI) interaction cross-section. The expected sensitivity limits calculated for ICAL for the WIMP annihilation in the earth are more stringent than the limits obtained by any other indirect detection experiment. For a WIMP mass of 52.14 GeV, where the signal fluxes are enhanced due to resonance capture of WIMP in earth due to Fe nuclei, the sensitivity limits, assuming 100% branching ratio for each channel, are : σ SI = 1.02 × 10 −44 cm 2 for the τ + τ − channel and σ SI = 5.36 × 10 −44 cm 2 for the bb channel.

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Prospects of indirect searches for dark matter annihilations in the earth with ICAL@INO

Tiwari

Choubey

Ghosh

2019

J. High Energ. Phys.

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“…Additionally to these studies, ANTARES carry out a very complete program on indirect searches of dark matter, by looking for secondary particles produced when they decay or annihilate in very massive objects like the Earth [37], the Sun [38] or the Galactic Center [39]. In particular, WIMP (Weakly Interactive Massive Particles) candidates, that should accumulate in these objects due to scattering with the ordinary matter and the gravitation pull of these objects (since are expected to annihilate in pairs into a production of standard model particles, including neutrinos), should reveal as a neutrino excess in the direction of these sources.…”

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Latest results on high-energy cosmic neutrino searches with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Losa

2019

EPJ Web Conf.

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The ANTARES detector is currently the largest undersea neutrino telescope. Located in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 2.5 km, 40 km off the Southern coast of France, it has been looking for cosmic neutrinos for more than 10 years. High-energy cosmic neutrino production is strongly linked with cosmic ray production. The latest results from IceCube Collaboration represent a step forward towards the confirmation of a highenergy cosmic ray source. The ANTARES location in the Northern Hemisphere is optimal for the observation of most of the Galactic Plane, including the Galactic Center. It has constrained the IceCube neutrino excess reports as well as, more recently, the flux from the source identified in the Blazar TXS 0506+056. The latest results of ANTARES on such analyses, including point-like and extended sources, diffuse fluxes, transient phenomena and multi-messenger studies, are presented.

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“…In addition WIMP signatures from the centre of the Earth and secluded dark-matter models in the Sun have been probed and limits been set accordingly [17].…”

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Highlights from ANTARES

Sambtleben¹

2018

Proceedings of XVII International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes — PoS(NEUTEL2017)

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The underwater neutrino telescope ANTARES has been continuously operating since 2007 in the Mediterranean Sea. The transparency of the water allows for a very good angular resolution in the reconstruction of signatures of all flavours neutrino interactions. This results in unprecedented sensitivity for the search of astrophysical neutrino sources at TeV energies, in the Southern Sky, so that valuable constraints could be set on the origin of the cosmic neutrino flux discovered by the IceCube detector. Aside from a search for neutrino sources on the full sky dedicated searches have been performed for promising neutrino source candidates -among those the high energy neutrino candidates from IceCube -and several interesting regions like the Galactic Plane or the Fermi Bubble. ANTARES is also embedded in a manifold multi-messenger program with e.g. optical and X-ray follow-up observations of promising astrophysical neutrino candidates. External observations are also used by ANTARES in special analyses like a follow-up on Gamma Ray Burst events or the evaluation of possible neutrino signals correlated with the newly discovered gravitational wave signals. So far no significant correlation with external observations has been detected. Strong constraints could also be set on the dark matter cross section from the search of neutrinos from potential dark matter annihilation in massive objects like the Sun and the Galactic Centre. XVII International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes

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Search for dark matter annihilation in the earth using the ANTARES neutrino telescope

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Prospects of indirect searches for dark matter annihilations in the earth with ICAL@INO

Prospects of indirect searches for dark matter annihilations in the earth with ICAL@INO

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