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Indirect Detection of Dark Matter in km-size Neutrino Telescopes

1999/06/02 by Lars Bergström, Lars Bergstrom, Joakim Edsjö +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Neutrino Physics Research #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9906033

To be presented at the 26th ICRC, Salt Lake City, August, 1999

arxiv created 1999/06/02 · openalex publication_date 1999/06/02 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Neutrino telescopes of kilometer size are currently being planned. They will be two or three orders of magnitude larger than presently operating detectors, but they will have a much higher muon energy threshold. We discuss the trade-off between area and energy threshold for indirect detection of neutralino dark matter captured in the Sun and in the Earth and annihilating into high energy neutrinos. We also study the effect of a higher threshold on the complementarity of different searches for supersymmetric dark matter.

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