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Limits on cold-dark-matter candidates from deep underground detectors

T. K. Gaisser and G. Steigman

S. Tilav

  • Bartol Research Foundation, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716

  • Department of Physics, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716

Phys. Rev. D 34, 2206 – Published 15 October, 1986

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.34.2206

Abstract

Weakly interacting massive particles which are candidates for the dark mass in the halo of the Galaxy would be captured by the Sun, accumulate in the solar core, and annihilate. We present a systematic evaluation of the neutrino signal produced by such annihilations. Since most annihilations occur in the dense solar interior, only prompt neutrinos escape with sufficiently high energy to be readily observable in deep underground detectors. We find that existing underground experiments are capable of findingor excludingseveral possible cold-dark-matter candidates.

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