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Search for dark matter towards the Galactic Centre with 11 years of ANTARES data

Authors :
Universitat Politècnica de València. Instituto de Investigación para la Gestión Integral de Zonas Costeras - Institut d'Investigació per a la Gestió Integral de Zones Costaneres
Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Física Aplicada - Departament de Física Aplicada
A*Midex Foundation
Junta de Andalucía
Region Ile-de-France
GENERALITAT VALENCIANA
Conseil régional du Grand Est
AGENCIA ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACION
Institut Universitaire de France
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
European Regional Development Fund
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Francia
Conseil Régional Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Francia
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Alemania
Council on grants of the President of the Russian Federation
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Francia
Laboratoire d'Excellence OCEVU (Origines, Constituants & ÉVolution de l'Univers)
Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche Scientifique et de la Formation des Cadres
Executive Agency for Higher Education, Scientific Research, Development and Innovation Funding, Rumanía
Albert, A.
Andre, M.
Anghinolfi, M.
Anton, G.
Ardid Ramírez, Miguel
Aubert, J-J.
Aublin, J.
Baret, B.
Basa, S.
Belhorma, B.
Bertin, V.
Biagi, S.
Bissinger, M.
Boumaaza, J.
Bourret, S.
Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio
Poirè, Chiara
Universitat Politècnica de València. Instituto de Investigación para la Gestión Integral de Zonas Costeras - Institut d'Investigació per a la Gestió Integral de Zones Costaneres
Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Física Aplicada - Departament de Física Aplicada
A*Midex Foundation
Junta de Andalucía
Region Ile-de-France
GENERALITAT VALENCIANA
Conseil régional du Grand Est
AGENCIA ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACION
Institut Universitaire de France
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
European Regional Development Fund
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Francia
Conseil Régional Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Francia
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Alemania
Council on grants of the President of the Russian Federation
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Francia
Laboratoire d'Excellence OCEVU (Origines, Constituants & ÉVolution de l'Univers)
Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche Scientifique et de la Formation des Cadres
Executive Agency for Higher Education, Scientific Research, Development and Innovation Funding, Rumanía
Albert, A.
Andre, M.
Anghinolfi, M.
Anton, G.
Ardid Ramírez, Miguel
Aubert, J-J.
Aublin, J.
Baret, B.
Basa, S.
Belhorma, B.
Bertin, V.
Biagi, S.
Bissinger, M.
Boumaaza, J.
Bourret, S.
Martínez Mora, Juan Antonio
Poirè, Chiara
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

[EN] Neutrino detectors participate in the indirect search for the fundamental constituents of dark matter (DM) in form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). In WIMP scenarios, candidate DM particles can pair-annihilate into Standard Model products, yielding considerable ¿uxes of high-energy neutrinos. A detector like ANTARES, located in the Northern Hemisphere, is able to perform a complementary search looking towards the Galactic Centre, where a high density of dark matter is thought to accumulate. Both this directional information and the spectral features of annihilating DM pairs are entered into an unbinned likelihood method to scan the data set in search for DM-like signals in ANTARES data. Results obtained upon unblinding 3170 days of data reconstructed with updated methods are presented, which provides a larger, and more accurate, data set than a previously published result using 2101 days. A non-observation of dark matter is converted into limits on the velocity-averaged cross section for WIMP pair annihilation.

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Database :
OAIster
Notes :
TEXT, English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1290665955
Document Type :
Electronic Resource