Published November 1, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

High energy neutrinos from neutralino annihilations in the Sun

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)
  • 2. Physics Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7059 (United States)

Description

Neutralino annihilations in the Sun to weak boson and top-quark pairs lead to high-energy neutrinos that can be detected by the IceCube and KM3 experiments in the search for neutralino dark matter. We calculate the neutrino signals from real and virtual WW, ZZ, Zh, and tt production and decays, accounting for the spin dependences of the matrix elements, which can have important influences on the neutrino energy spectra. We take into account neutrino propagation including neutrino oscillations, matter-resonance, absorption, and ντ regeneration effects in the Sun and evaluate the neutrino flux at the Earth. We concentrate on the compelling focus point (FP) region of the supergravity model that reproduces the observed dark matter relic density. For the FP region, the lightest neutralino has a large bino-Higgsino mixture that leads to a high neutrino flux and the spin-dependent neutralino capture rate in the Sun is enhanced by 103 over the spin-independent rate. For the standard estimate of neutralino captures, the muon signal rates in IceCube are identifiable over the atmospheric neutrino background for neutralino masses above MZ up to 400 GeV

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
76
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 095008-095008.23
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2007 The American Physical Society