Limits on dark matter annihilation in the sun using the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Adrian-Martineza S, Albert A, Andre M, Anton G, Ardid M, Aubert JJ, Avgitas T, Baret B, Barrios-Marti J, Basa S, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bormuth R, Bouwhuis MC, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Busto J, Capone A, Caramete L, Carr J, Celli S, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Coleiro A, Coniglione R, Costantini H, Coyle P, Creusot A, Deschamps A, De Bonis G, Distefano C, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Drouhin D, Eberl T, El Bojaddaini I, Elsaesser D, Enzenhofer A, Fehn K, Felis I, Fusco LA, Galata S, Gay P, Geißelsöder S, Geyer K, Giordano V, Gleixner A, Glotin H, Gracia-Ruiz R, Graf K, Hallmann S, Van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernandez-Rey JJ, Hößl J, Hofestädt J, Hugon C, Illuminati G, James C, De Jong M, Jongen M, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Katz U, Kießling D, Kouchner A, Kreter M, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lachaud C, Lahmann R, Lefevre D, Leonora E, Loucatos S, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Marinelli A, Martinez-Mora JA, Mathieu A, Melis K, Michael T, Migliozzi P, Moussa A, Müller C, Nezri E, Pavalas GE, Pellegrino C, Perrina C, Piattelli P, Popa V, Pradier T, Racca C, Riccobene G, Roensch K, Saldana M, Samtleben DFE, Sanchez-Losa A, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schnabel J, Schussler F, Seitz T, Sieger C, Spurio M, Stolarczyk T, Taiuti M, Tonnis C, Trovato A, Tselengidou M, Turpin D, Vallage B, Vallee C, Van Elewyck V, Vivolo D, Wagner S, Wilms J, Zornoza JD, Zuniga J (2016)

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2016

Journal

Publisher: Elsevier

Book Volume: 759

Pages Range: 69-74

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.019

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 90% 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 50 GeV to 5 TeV for the annihilation channels WIMP+WIMP→bb-,WW and ττ.

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Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) France (FR) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain (ES) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) University of València / Universitat de València Spain (ES) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) France (FR) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) Institute of Space Science (ISS) / Institutul de Științe Spațiale Romania (RO) Côte d'Azur Observatory / Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA) France (FR) Mohammed First University / Université Mohammed Premier / جامعة محمد الأول Morocco (MA) L’université Blaise Pascal (L'UBP) / Blaise Pascal University France (FR) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique France (FR) National Institute for Subatomic Physics / Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (Nikhef) Netherlands (NL) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL)

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APA:

Adrian-Martineza, S., Albert, A., Andre, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J.-J.,... Zuniga, J. (2016). Limits on dark matter annihilation in the sun using the ANTARES neutrino telescope. Physics Letters B, 759, 69-74. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.019

MLA:

Adrian-Martineza, S., et al. "Limits on dark matter annihilation in the sun using the ANTARES neutrino telescope." Physics Letters B 759 (2016): 69-74.

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