2016/03/31 by ANTARES collaboration, S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert +130 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Annihilation #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Muon #Neutrino #Neutrino detector #Neutrino oscillation #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #WIMP #astro-ph.HE #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.019
published as Physics Letters B, Volume 759, 10 August 2016, Pages 69 to 74 · 6 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to Physics letters B
arxiv created 2016/05/09 · openalex publication_date 2016/05/10 · arxiv updated 2016/06/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
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 → b b ¯ , W + W − and τ + τ − .