Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-12-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 4 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter (ID
Scientific paper
A new Solar System population of Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter has been proposed to exist. We investigate the implications of this population on indirect signals in neutrino telescopes (due to WIMP annihilations in the Earth) for the case when the WIMP is the lightest neutralino of the MSSM, the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model. The velocity distribution and capture rate of this new population is evaluated and the flux of neutrino-induced muons from the center of the Earth in neutrino telescopes is calculated. We show that the effects of the new population can be crucial for masses around 60-120 GeV, where enhancements of the predicted muon flux from the center of the Earth by up to a factor of 100 compared to previously published estimates occur. As a result of the new WIMP population, neutrino telescopes should be able to probe a much larger region of parameter space in this mass range.
Bergstrom Lars
Damour Thibault
Edsjo Joakim
Krauss Lawrence M.
Ullio Piero
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