Indirect detection of dark matter in km-size neutrino telescopes

1998/06/06 by Lars Bergström, L. Bergstrom, J. Edsjo +3 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Muon #Neutralino #Neutrino #Neutrino detector #Neutrino oscillation #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #astro-ph #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.58.103519

published as Phys. Rev. D 58, 103519 (1998) · 16 pages, 16 figures, uses RevTeX

arxiv created 1998/06/06 · openalex publication_date 1998/10/27 · arxiv updated 2016/08/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Neutrino telescopes of kilometer size are currently being planned. They will be two or three orders of magnitude bigger 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.

Citations

• Cosmic abundances of stable particles: Improved analysis
• Model-Independent Comparison of Direct versus Indirect Detection of Supersymmetric Dark Matter
• Neutralino relic density including coannihilations
• Searching for relic neutralinos using neutrino telescopes
• Three-body annihilation of neutralinos below two-body thresholds

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• Oscillations of solar atmosphere neutrinos
• Neutrinos from WIMP annihilations obtained using a full three-flavor Monte Carlo approach
• Higgs bosons and the indirect search for weakly interacting massive particles