Published March 1, 2010
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Journal article
Limits on a muon flux from Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilations in the Sun from the IceCube 22-string detector
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)
Description
A search for muon neutrinos from Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the 22-string configuration of the IceCube 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 lightest Kaluza-Klein particle (LKP) WIMPs in the Sun and converted to limits on the LKP-proton cross sections for LKP masses in the range 250-3000 GeV. These results are the most stringent limits to date on LKP annihilation in the Sun.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.057101;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0910.4480v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 81
- Journal Issue
- 5
- Journal Page Range
- p. 057101-057101.6
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 42003062
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; CONFIGURATION; CROSS SECTIONS; DEAD TIME; GEV RANGE 100-1000; KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY; MASS; MUON NEUTRINOS; MUONS; NEUTRINO DETECTION; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARTICLES; PROTONS; SOLAR NEUTRINOS; SUN
- Descriptors DEC
- BARYONS; DETECTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GEV RANGE; HADRONS; INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; NEUTRINOS; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; SOLAR PARTICLES; SOLAR RADIATION; STARS; STELLAR RADIATION; TIMING PROPERTIES; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2010 The American Physical Society
- Collaborations
- IceCube Collaboration