Signatures of dark matter in underground detectors
Abstract
The neutralino, the lightest superpartner in many supersymmetric theories, is arguably the leading dark-matter candidate from both the cosmological and particle-physics points of view. Its mass is bracketed by a minimum value of tens of GeV, determined from unsuccessful accelerator searches, and a maximum value of several TeV, above which neutralinos "overclose" the Universe. If neutralinos exist in our galactic halo, they will be gravitationally captured by scattering off elements in the Sun. Annihilation of neutralinos in the Sun will produce a neutrino flux which can be detected on Earth and thus provide indirect evidence for galactic dark matter. We show that a 1-km2 area is the natural scale of a neutrino telescope capable of probing the GeV-TeV neutralino mass range by searching for high-energy neutrinos produced by their annihilation in the Sun.
Additional Information
© 1992 The American Physical Society. Received 17 January 1992. We would like to thank Steve Barwick, Masaki Mori, and Tim Miller for useful conversations, and Erik Chell for computer assistance. This research was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contracts No. DE-FG02-91ER40626 and No. DE-AC02-76ER00881, in part by the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission under Grant No. RGFY9173, and in part by the University of Wisconsin Research Committee with funds granted by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. M.P.K. was supported by the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission and acknowledges the hospitality of the Institute for Advanced Study.Attached Files
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- Department of Energy (DOE)
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- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-AC02-76ER00881
- Texas National Research Laboratory Commission
- RGFY9173
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
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