2013/12/16 by Paul Bergeron, Stefano Profumo · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Higgs boson #Lightest Supersymmetric Particle #Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model #Neutralino #Neutrino #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Supersymmetry #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2014/01/026
published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2014(01), 026 (Institute of Physics) · 15 pages, 6 Figures, accepted for publication in JCAP
arxiv created 2013/12/16 · openalex publication_date 2014/01/16 · arxiv updated 2015/06/18 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The discovery of a particle that could be the lightest CP-even Higgs of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) and the lack of evidence so far for supersymmetry at the LHC have many profound implications, including for the phenomenology of supersymmetric dark matter. In this study, we re-evaluate and give an update on the prospects for detecting supersymmetric neutralinos with neutrino telescopes, focussing in particular on the IceCube/DeepCore Telescope as well as on its proposed extension, PINGU. Searches for high-energy neutrinos from the Sun with IceCube probe MSSM neutralino dark matter models with the correct Higgs mass in a significant way. This is especially the case for neutralino dark matter models producing hard neutrino spectra, across a wide range of masses, while PINGU is anticipated to improve the detector sensitivity especially for models in the low neutralino mass range.