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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.095008;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0708.1325v2;
Publishing Information
- 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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39052810
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; CAPTURE; ENERGY SPECTRA; GEV RANGE; MATRIX ELEMENTS; MUONS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARTICLE DECAY; RESONANCE ABSORPTION; REST MASS; SPIN; SUN; SUPERGRAVITY; T QUARKS; TAU NEUTRINOS; W MINUS BOSONS; W PLUS BOSONS; Z NEUTRAL BOSONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ABSORPTION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BOSONS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; HEAVY LEPTONS; INTERACTIONS; INTERMEDIATE BOSONS; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; LEPTONS; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUARKS; SORPTION; SPECTRA; STARS; TOP PARTICLES; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES
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- Notes
- (c) 2007 The American Physical Society