Published November 11, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Dark matter search with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

  • 1. IFIC, Ed. Institutos de Investigacin, AC 20085, E-46071 Valencia (Spain)

Description

The ANTARES neutrino telescope was completed in 2008 with the installation of its 12th line. Its scientific scope is very broad, but the two main goals are the observation of astrophysical sources and the indirect detection of dark matter. The latter is possible through neutrinos produced after the annihilation of WIMPs, which would accumulate in sources like the Sun, the Earth or the Galactic Centre. The neutralino, which arises in Supersymmetry models, is one of the most popular WIMP candidates. KK particles, which appear in Universal Extra Dimension models, are another one. Though in most models these annihilations would not directly produce neutrinos, they are expected from the decay of secondary particles. An important advantage of neutrino telescopes with respect to other indirect searches (like gamma rays or cosmic rays) is that a potential signal (for instance from the Sun) would be very clean, since no other astrophysical explanations could mimic it (like pulsars for the case of the positron excess seen by PAMELA). Moreover, the Galactic Centre is accessible for ANTARES, being in the Northern Hemisphere. In this talk I will present the results of the ANTARES telescope for dark matter searches, which include neutralino and KK particles.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2011.12.066

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2011.12.066;
arXiv
arXiv:1204.5066v1;
PII
S0168-9002(11)02300-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
692
Journal Issue
Complete
Journal Page Range
p. 123-126
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

Conference

Title
3. Roma international conference on astroparticle physics
Acronym
RICAP'11
Dates
24-27 May 2011
Place
Rome (Italy)

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