Search for dark matter towards the Galactic Centre with 11 years of ANTARES data

Albert A, André M, Anghinolfi M, Anton G, Ardid M, Aubert JJ, Aublin J, Baret B, Basa S, Belhorma B, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bissinger M, Boumaaza J, Bourret S, Bouta M, Bouwhuis MC, Brânzaş H, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Busto J, Capone A, Caramete L, Carr J, Celli S, Chabab M, Chau TN, Cherkaoui El Moursli R, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Coleiro A, Colomer M, Coniglione R, Costantini H, Coyle P, Creusot A, Díaz AF, de Wasseige G, Deschamps A, Distefano C, Di Palma I, Domi A, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Drouhin D, Eberl T, El Bojaddaini I, El Khayati N, Elsässer D, Enzenhöfer A, Ettahiri A, Fassi F, Fermani P, Ferrara G, Filippini F, Fusco L, Gay P, Glotin H, Gozzini R, Gracia Ruiz R, Graf K, Guidi C, Hallmann S, van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernández-Rey JJ, Hößl J, Hofestädt J, Illuminati G, James CW, de Jong M, de Jong P, Jongen M, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Katz U, Khan-Chowdhury NR, Kouchner A, Kreter M, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Le Breton R, Lefèvre D, Leonora E, Levi G, Lincetto M, Lopez-Coto D, Loucatos S, Maggi G, Manczak J, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Marinelli A, Martínez-Mora JA, Mele R, Melis K, Migliozzi P, Moser M, Moussa A, Muller R, Nauta L, Navas S, Nezri E, Nielsen C, Nuñez-Castiñeyra A, O'Fearraigh B, Organokov M, Păvălaş GE, Pellegrino C, Perrin-Terrin M, Piattelli P, Poirè C, Popa V, Pradier T, Quinn L, Randazzo N, Riccobene G, Sánchez-Losa A, Salah-Eddine A, Samtleben DF, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schüssler F, Spurio M, Stolarczyk T, Strandberg B, Taiuti M, Tayalati Y, Thakore T, Tingay SJ, Trovato A, Vallage B, Van Elewyck V, Versari F, Viola S, Vivolo D, Wilms J, Zaborov D, Zegarelli A, Zornoza JD, Zúñiga J (2020)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2020

Journal

Book Volume: 805

Article Number: 135439

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135439

Abstract

Neutrino detectors participate in the indirect search for the fundamental constituents of dark matter (DM) in form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). In WIMP scenarios, candidate DM particles can pair-annihilate into Standard Model products, yielding considerable fluxes of high-energy neutrinos. A detector like ANTARES, located in the Northern Hemisphere, is able to perform a complementary search looking towards the Galactic Centre, where a high density of dark matter is thought to accumulate. Both this directional information and the spectral features of annihilating DM pairs are entered into an unbinned likelihood method to scan the data set in search for DM-like signals in ANTARES data. Results obtained upon unblinding 3170 days of data reconstructed with updated methods are presented, which provides a larger, and more accurate, data set than a previously published result using 2101 days. A non-observation of dark matter is converted into limits on the velocity-averaged cross section for WIMP pair annihilation.

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Universidad de Granada Spain (ES) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) Côte d'Azur Observatory / Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA) France (FR) Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany (DE) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) Institute for Corpuscular Physics / Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) Spain (ES) National Center for Energy Science & Nuclear Technology Morocco (MA) FOM Foundation Netherlands (NL) National Institute for Laser, Plasma & Radiation Physics (INFLPR) Romania (RO) Mohammed First University / Université Mohammed Premier / جامعة محمد الأول Morocco (MA) International University of Rabat (IUR) / الجامعة الدولية للرباط Morocco (MA) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) University of Toulon / Université de Toulon (UTLN) France (FR) Cadi Ayyad University / جامعة القاضي عياض‎ Morocco (MA) Universiteit Utrecht (UU) / Utrecht University Netherlands (NL) Curtin University Australia (AU) École Polytechnique - Université Paris-Saclay France (FR) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain (ES)

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APA:

Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J.J.,... Zúñiga, J. (2020). Search for dark matter towards the Galactic Centre with 11 years of ANTARES data. Physics Letters B, 805. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135439

MLA:

Albert, A., et al. "Search for dark matter towards the Galactic Centre with 11 years of ANTARES data." Physics Letters B 805 (2020).

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