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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Limits to the muon flux from neutralino annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA detector

K. RawlinsR. SchwarzJodi CooleyIgnacio TaboadaI. LiubarskyA. GrossOthmane BouhaliTorsten HarenbergA. C. PohlJames MadsenC. H. WiebuschT. BeckaP. EkströmP. BerghausPawel MarciniewskiS. RichterM. BarteltM. KestelDavid A. SchneiderJohan LundbergG. C. HillAnna DavourT. DeyoungXinhua BaiK. KuehnS. SchlenstedtHeiko GeenenO. TarasovaR. MorseKarl-heinz KampertC. P. McparlandMatthias LeutholdD. J. BoersmaH. S. MatisGlenn SpiczakJanet JacobsenD. R. NygrenR. GanugapatiFrancis HalzenH. LeichR. PorrataA. SilvestriK. HultqvistD. F. CowenD. HubertS. HundertmarkP. HerquetA. GoldschmidtMarek KowalskiP. B. PriceJ. K. BeckerPh. OlbrechtsHakki ÖGelmanL. KöpkeC. De ClercqD. SteeleK. HansonB. HugheyM. RibordyK. HelbingK. MünichJan ConradT. FeserL. GerhardtKurt WoschnaggK.-h. BeckerP. SteffenChristian SpieringS. RobbinsMarkus AckermannS. W. BarwickJ. Rodríguez MartinoWolfgang RhodeP. MiocinovicT. HauschildtS. BöserDmitry ChirkinJoseph T. HodgesWolfgang WagnerM. HellwigM. WalterH. G. SanderElisa BernardiniY. MinaevaM. V. D'agostinoR. NahnhauerR. LangC. WalckP. O. HulthYi WangB. CollinAdam BouchtaC.p. De Los HerosPaolo DesiatiThomas K. GaisserJ. AhrensJ. W. NamAllan HallgrenL. ThollanderH. WissingP. NiessenT. MessariusC.p. BurgessD. HardtkeR. C. BayK. H. SulankeElisa ResconiT. CastermansS. TilavMichael StamatikosT. NeunhöfferAlbrecht KarleT. BurgessD. BertrandR. G. StokstadR. WischnewskiG. KohnenGerald PrzybylskiM. SolarzOlga Botner

subject

Astroparticle physicsPhysicsParticle physicsRange (particle radiation)AMANDAMuonPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaDetectorDark matterHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyAstrophysics (astro-ph)NeutralinoFOS: Physical sciencesAstronomy and AstrophysicsAstrophysicsAMANDA; Dark matter; Neutralino; Neutrino telescopesNuclear physicsNeutrino detectorNeutralinoMuon fluxDark matterHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNeutrino telescopes

description

A search for an excess of muon-neutrinos from neutralino annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the AMANDA-II neutrino detector using data collected in 143.7 days of live-time in 2001. 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 captured neutralinos in the Sun, as well as the corresponding muon flux limit at the Earth, both as functions of the neutralino mass in the range 100 GeV-5000 GeV.

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2005-08-24
10.1016/j.astropartphys.2005.09.006http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3318397