High energy neutrinos from neutralino annihilations in the Sun

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dc.creatorBarger, Vernon
dc.creatorKeung, Wai-Yee
dc.creatorShaughnessy, Gabe
dc.creatorTregre, Adam
dc.date2007-08-10
dc.date2007-11-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:18:34Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:18:34Z
dc.descriptionNeutralino annihilations in the Sun to weak boson and top quark pairs lead to high-energy neutrinos that can be detected by the IceCube and KM3 experiments in the search for neutralino dark matter. We calculate the neutrino signals from real and virtual WW, ZZ, Zh, and $t \bar t$ production and decays, accounting for the spin-dependences of the matrix elements, which can have important influences on the neutrino energy spectra. We take into account neutrino propagation including neutrino oscillations, matter-resonance, absorption, and nu_tau regeneration effects in the Sun and evaluate the neutrino flux at the Earth. We concentrate on the compelling Focus Point (FP) region of the supergravity model that reproduces the observed dark matter relic density. For the FP region, the lightest neutralino has a large bino-higgsino mixture that leads to a high neutrino flux and the spin-dependent neutralino capture rate in the Sun is enhanced by 10^3 over the spin-independent rate. For the standard estimate of neutralino captures, the muon signal rates in IceCube are identifiable over the atmospheric neutrino background for neutralino masses above M_Z up to 400 GeV.
dc.description45 pages, 18 figures and 5 tables, PRD version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1325
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1325
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D76:095008,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.095008
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/193387
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleHigh energy neutrinos from neutralino annihilations in the Sun
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