Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-03-06
Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 103519
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 2 figures. Typo in Eq.1 corrected; matches accepted version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.73.103519
Current strategies of indirect Dark Matter detection with neutrino telescopes are based on the search for high-energy neutrinos from the Solar core or from the center of the Earth. Here, we propose a new strategy based on the detection of neutrinos from Dark Matter annihilations in 'mini-spikes' around Intermediate Mass Black Holes. Neutrino fluxes, in this case, depend on the annihilation cross-section of Dark Matter particles, whereas solar and terrestrial fluxes are sensitive to the scattering cross-section off nucleons, a circumstance that makes the proposed search complementary to the existing ones. We discuss the prospects for detection with upcoming under-water and under-ice experiments such as ANTARES and IceCube, and show that several, up to many, sources could be detected with both experiments. A kilometer scale telescope in the Mediterranean appears to be ideally suited for the proposed search.
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