Published April 28, 2009
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Journal article
Limits on a muon flux from neutralino annihilations in the Sun with the IceCube 22-string detector
Description
A search for muon neutrinos from neutralino annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the IceCube 22-string neutrino detector using data collected in 104.3 days of live-time in 2007. No excess over the expected atmospheric background has been observed. Upper limits have been obtained on the annihilation rate of captured neutralinos in the Sun and converted to limits on the WIMP-proton cross-sections for WIMP masses in the range 250-5000 GeV. These results are the most stringent limits to date on neutralino annihilation in the Sun
Availability note (English)
Available from OSTI as DE00963026; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/963026-vIkcTC/Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Issue
- Issue Apr 2009
- Journal Page Range
- vp.
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 40094601
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; CROSS SECTIONS; DEAD TIME; MUON NEUTRINOS; MUONS; NEUTRINOS; SUN
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; STARS; TIMING PROPERTIES
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- AC02-05CH11231
- Notes
- 5 pages
- Collaborations
- IceCube Collaboration
- Funding organization
- Nuclear Science Division (United States)
- Secondary number(s)
- LBNL--2096E