Title
Limits on a muon flux from neutralino annihilations in the sun with the IceCube 22-string detector
Date Issued
18 May 2009
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abbasi R.
Abdou Y.
Ackermann M.
Adams J.
Ahlers M.
Andeen K.
Auffenberg J.
Bai X.
Baker M.
Barwick S.W.
Bay R.
Beattie K.
Beatty J.J.
Bechet S.
Becker J.K.
Becker K.H.
Benabderrahmane M.L.
Berdermann J.
Berghaus P.
Berley D.
Bernardini E.
Bertrand D.
Besson D.Z.
Bissok M.
Blaufuss E.
Boersma D.J.
Bohm C.
Bolmont J.
Böser S.
Botner O.
Bradley L.
Braun J.
Breder D.
Burgess T.
Castermans T.
Chirkin D.
Christy B.
Clem J.
Cohen S.
Cowen D.F.
D'Agostino M.V.
Danninger M.
Day C.T.
De Clercq C.
Demirörs L.
Depaepe O.
Descamps F.
Desiati P.
De Vries-Uiterweerd G.
Deyoung T.
Diaz-Velez J.C.
Dreyer J.
Dumm J.P.
Duvoort M.R.
Edwards W.R.
Ehrlich R.
Eisch J.
Ellsworth R.W.
Engdegård O.
Euler S.
Evenson P.A.
Fadiran O.
Fazely A.R.
Feusels T.
Filimonov K.
Finley C.
Foerster M.M.
Fox B.D.
Franckowiak A.
Franke R.
Gaisser T.K.
Gallagher J.
Ganugapati R.
Gerhardt L.
Gladstone L.
Goldschmidt A.
Goodman J.A.
Gozzini R.
Grant D.
Griesel T.
Groß A.
Grullon S.
Gunasingha R.M.
Gurtner M.
Ha C.
Hallgren A.
Halzen F.
Han K.
Hanson K.
Hasegawa Y.
Heise J.
Helbing K.
Herquet P.
Hickford S.
Hill G.C.
Hoffman K.D.
Hoshina K.
Hubert D.
Huelsnitz W.
RWTH Aachen University
Abstract
A search for muon neutrinos from neutralino annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the IceCube 22-string neutrino detector using data collected in 104.3 days of live time in 2007. No excess over the expected atmospheric background has been observed. Upper limits have been obtained on the annihilation rate of captured neutralinos in the Sun and converted to limits on the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) proton cross sections for WIMP masses in the range 250-5000 GeV. These results are the most stringent limits to date on neutralino annihilation in the Sun. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
Volume
102
Issue
20
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-66149168831
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
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