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Limits to the muon flux from neutralino annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA detector |
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| Affiliation: | aDESY, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany bInstitute of Physics, University of Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany cBartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA dInstitute of Physics, University of Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany eDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA fDepartment of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA gDepartment of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany hUniversité Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium iDivision of High Energy Physics, Uppsala University, S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden jDepartment of Physics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden kFaculty of Sciences, University of Mons-Hainaut, B-7000 Mons, Belgium lDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA mDepartment of Physics, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA nVrije Universiteit Brussel, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium oDepartment of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA pLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA qBlackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BW, UK rDepartment of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, University of Kalmar, SE-39182 Kalmar, Sweden sDepartment of Physics, University of Wisconsin—River Falls, River Falls, WI 54011, USA |
| Abstract: | 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 100–5000 GeV. |
| Keywords: | Dark matter Neutrino telescopes AMANDA Neutralino |
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