Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2012-01-31
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
11 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
We investigate the prospects for distinguishing dark matter annihilation channels using the neutrino flux from gravitationally captured dark matter particles annihilating inside the sun. We show that, even with experimental error in energy reconstruction taken into account, the spectrum of contained muon tracks may be used to discriminate neutrino final states from the gauge boson/charged lepton final states and to determine their corresponding branching ratios. We also discuss the effect of $\nu_\tau$ regeneration inside the sun as a novel method to distinguish the flavor of final state neutrinos. This effect as evidenced in the muon spectrum becomes important for dark matter masses above 300 GeV. Distinguishing primary neutrinos and their flavor may be achieved using multi-year data from a detector with the same capability and effective volume as the IceCube/DeepCore array.
Allahverdi Rouzbeh
Richardson Katherine
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