Published June 1, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Annihilation of NMSSM neutralinos in the Sun and neutrino telescope limits

  • 1. Institute for Nuclear Research of Russian Academy of Sciences, prospect 60-th October 7A, Moscow 117312 (Russian Federation)

Description

We investigate neutralino dark matter in the framework of NMSSM performing a scan over its parameter space and calculating neutralino capture and annihilation rates in the Sun. We discuss the prospects of searches for neutralino dark matter in neutrino experiments depending on neutralino content and its main annihilation channel. We recalculate the upper limits on neutralino-proton elastic cross sections directly from neutrino telescopes upper bounds on annihilation rates in the Sun. This procedure has advantages as compared with corresponding recalcalations from the limits on muon flux, namely, it is independent on details of the experiment and the recalculation coefficients are universal for any kind of WIMP dark matter models. We derive 90% c.l. upper limits on neutralino-proton cross sections from the results of the Baksan Underground Scintillator Telescope

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/06/018

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2010
Journal Issue
06
Journal Page Range
p. 018
ISSN
1475-7516