Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-05-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The neutralino, the lightest stable supersymmetric particle, is a strong theoretical candidate for the missing astronomical ``dark matter''. A profusion of such neutralinos can accumulate near the Sun when they lose energy upon scattering and are gravitationally captured. Pair-annihilations of those neutralinos may produce very high energy (VHE, above $100 GeV$) gamma-rays. Milagro is an air shower array which uses the water Cherenkov technique to detect extensive air showers and is capable of observing VHE gamma-rays from the direction of the Sun with an angular resolution of $0.75^{\circ}$. Analysis of Milagro data with an exposure to the Sun of 1165 hours presents the first attempt to detect TeV gamma-rays produced by annihilating neutralinos captured by the Solar system and shows no statistically significant signal. Resulting limits that can be set on gamma-ray flux due to near-Solar neutralino annihilations and on neutralino cross-section are presented.
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