Published August 1, 2002
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Journal article
Limits to the muon flux from WIMP annihilation in the center of the Earth with the AMANDA detector
Creators
- Ahrens, J.1
- Becka, T.1
- Becker, K.-H.1
- Feser, T.1
- Hellwig, M.1
- Koepke, L.1
- Neunhoeffer, T.1
- Sander, H.-G.1
- Weinheimer, C.1
- Andres, E.2
- Dalberg, E.2
- Edsjoe, J.2
- Ekstroem, P.2
- Goobar, A.2
- Hulth, P.O.2
- Minaeva, Y.2
- Rodriguez Martino, J.2
- Thollander, L.2
- Walck, C.2
- Wiedemann, C.2
- and others
- AMANDA Collaboration
- 1. Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, D-55099 Mainz (Germany)
- 2. Department of Physics, SCFAB, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm (Sweden)
Description
A search for nearly vertical up-going muon-neutrinos from neutralino annihilations in the center of the Earth has been performed with the AMANDA-B10 neutrino detector. The data collected in 130.1 days of live time in 1997, ∼109 events, have been analyzed for this search. No excess over the expected atmospheric neutrino background has been observed. An upper limit at 90% confidence level has been obtained on the annihilation rate of neutralinos in the center of the Earth, as well as the corresponding muon flux limit, both as a function of the neutralino mass in the range 100 GeV-5000 GeV
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.032006;
- arXiv
- arXiv:astro-ph/0202370v3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 66
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 032006-032006.13
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35067484
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; BORON 10; COSMIC MUONS; COSMIC NEUTRINOS; GEV RANGE; LIMITING VALUES; MUON NEUTRINOS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; REST MASS; SPARTICLES; WEAK INTERACTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- BASIC INTERACTIONS; BORON ISOTOPES; COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; INTERACTIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; ISOTOPES; LEPTONS; LIGHT NUCLEI; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; MUONS; NEUTRINOS; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; RADIATIONS; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION; STABLE ISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2002 The American Physical Society
- Collaborations
- AMANDA Collaboration