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Muon flux limits for Majorana dark matter from strong coupling theories

Konstantin Belotsky¹, Maxim Khlopov^1,2, and Chris Kouvaris³

¹Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia and Center for Cosmoparticle Physics, “Cosmion,” Moscow, Russia
²APC Laboratory, Paris, France
³The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Phys. Rev. D 79, 083520 – Published 16 April, 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.083520

Abstract

We analyze the effects of the capture of dark matter (DM) particles, with successive annihilations, predicted in the minimal walking technicolor model (MWT) by the Sun and the Earth. We show that the Super-Kamiokande upper limit on excessive muon flux disfavors the mass interval between 100 and 200 GeV for MWT DM with a suppressed standard model interaction (due to a mixing angle), and the mass interval between 0 and 1500 GeV for MWT DM without such suppression, upon making the standard assumption about the value of the local DM distribution. In the first case, the exclusion interval is found to be very sensitive to the DM distribution parameters and can vanish at the extreme of the acceptable values.

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