Results from the search for dark matter in the Milky Way with 9 years of data of the ANTARES neutrino telescope
Abstract
Using data recorded with the ANTARES telescope from 2007 to 2015, a new search for dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way has been performed. Three halo models and five annihilation channels, WIMP + WIMP → b b bar ,W+W- ,τ+τ- ,μ+μ- and ν ν bar , with WIMP masses ranging from 50 GeV/c2 to 100 TeV/c2, were considered. No excess over the expected background was found, and limits on the thermally averaged annihilation cross-section were set.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- June 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.03.063
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1612.04595
- Bibcode:
- 2017PhLB..769..249A
- Keywords:
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- Dark matter;
- WIMP;
- Indirect detection;
- Neutrino telescope;
- Galactic Centre;
- ANTARES;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 6 figures submitted to Physics Letters B. Erratum accepted by Physics Letters B