Indirect dark matter searches towards the Sun using the full ANTARES data set

Scarnera M, de Wasseige G, Albert A, Alves S, André M, Ardid M, Ardid S, Aubert JJ, Aublin J, Baret B, Basa S, Becherini Y, Belhorma B, Benfenati F, Bertin V, Biagi S, Boumaaza J, Bouta M, Bouwhuis MC, Brânzaş H, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Busto J, Caiffi B, Calvo D, Campion S, Capone A, Carenini F, Carr J, Carretero V, Cartraud T, Celli S, Cerisy L, Chabab M, Cherkaoui El Moursli R, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Coelho JA, Coleiro A, Coniglione R, Coyle P, Creusot A, Díaz AF, De Martino B, Distefano C, Di Palma I, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Drouhin D, Eberl T, Eddymaoui A, van Eeden T, van Eijk D, El Hedri S, El Khayati N, Enzenhöfer A, Fermani P, Ferrara G, Filippini F, Fusco L, Gagliardini S, García-Méndez J, Gatius Oliver C, Gay P, Geißelbrecht N, Glotin H, Gozzini R, Gracia Ruiz R, Graf K, Guidi C, Haegel L, van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hennig L, Hernández-Rey JJ, Hößl J, Huang F, Illuminati G, Jisse-Jung B, de Jong M, de Jong P, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Katz U, Kouchner A, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Lamoureux M, Lazo A, Lefèvre D, Leonora E, Levi G, Le Stum S, Loucatos S, Manczak J, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Marinelli A, Martínez-Mora JA, Migliozzi P, Moussa A, Muller R, Navas S, Nezri E, Ó Fearraigh B, Oukacha E, Păun AM, Păvălaş GE, Peña-Martínez S, Perrin-Terrin M, Piattelli P, Poirè C, Popa V, Pradier T, Randazzo N, Real D, Riccobene G, Romanov A, Sánchez Losa A, Saina A, Salesa Greus F, Samtleben DF, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schüssler F, Seneca J, Spurio M, Stolarczyk T, Taiuti M, Tayalati Y, Vallage B, Vannoye G, Van Elewyck V, Viola S, Vivolo D, Wilms J, Zavatarelli S, Zegarelli A, Zornoza JD, Zúñiga J (2025)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2025

Journal

Publisher: Sissa Medialab Srl

Book Volume: 501

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of Science

Event location: Geneva

DOI: 10.22323/1.501.0515

Abstract

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the most compelling candidates for particle dark matter. These particles can be gravitationally captured by massive celestial bodies, such as the Sun, where they accumulate and, according to theoretical models, eventually self-annihilate into Standard Model particles, including neutrinos. Neutrino telescopes - large arrays of photo-sensors in a transparent medium - can search for this indirect signature of dark matter by detecting neutrinos originating from the Sun’s core. In this study, data collected from 2007 to 2022 by ANTARES, a neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea, are analyzed to perform an indirect search for dark matter from the direction of the Sun. Neutrino event properties are reconstructed using standard algorithms developed within the Collaboration, alongside a novel Machine Learning tool designed to enhance reconstruction accuracy for neutrino energies below 200 GeV, applied for the first time in this type of analysis. Additionally, all-flavor neutrino interactions are considered. A likelihood-based unbinned analysis is conducted to determine the upper limits to the spin-dependent and spin-independent WIMP- nucleon scattering cross-sections for WIMP masses ranging from 35 GeV/c² to 10 TeV/c² and for three different annihilation channels.

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Involved external institutions

University of València / Universitat de València Spain (ES) Université Paris Cité France (FR) FOM Foundation Netherlands (NL) Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany (DE) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) University of Toulon / Université de Toulon (UTLN) France (FR) National Institute for Laser, Plasma & Radiation Physics (INFLPR) Romania (RO) Mohammed First University / Université Mohammed Premier / جامعة محمد الأول Morocco (MA) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) Cadi Ayyad University / جامعة القاضي عياض‎ Morocco (MA) The National Center for Nuclear Energy, Sciences and Techniques (CNESTEN) Morocco (MA) Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) Mohammed V University (UMVA) / جامعة محمد الخامس‎ Morocco (MA) Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) Belgium (BE) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) / Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña Spain (ES) Università degli Studi di Salerno Italy (IT) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL) Universidad de Granada Spain (ES) UMR Géoazur - Campus Azur du CNRS France (FR) Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) / Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie France (FR) Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe / Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'univers (IRFU) France (FR)

How to cite

APA:

Scarnera, M., de Wasseige, G., Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Ardid, M.,... Zúñiga, J. (2025). Indirect dark matter searches towards the Sun using the full ANTARES data set. In Proceedings of Science. Geneva, CH: Sissa Medialab Srl.

MLA:

Scarnera, Marco, et al. "Indirect dark matter searches towards the Sun using the full ANTARES data set." Proceedings of the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2025, Geneva Sissa Medialab Srl, 2025.

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