%0 Journal Article
%T Search for dark matter annihilation in the earth using the ANTARES neutrino telescope
%A ANTARES Collaboration (Albert, A. et al
%A Barrios-Marti, J.
%A Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
%A Illuminati, G.
%A Lotze, M.
%A Tönnis, C.
%A Zornoza, J. D.
%A Zuñiga, J.
%J Physics of the Dark Universe
%D 2017
%V 16
%I Elsevier Science Bv
%@ 2212-6864
%G English
%F ANTARESCollaborationAlbert_etal2017
%O WOS:000405461200006
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3201), last updated on Mon, 19 Aug 2019 06:52:50 +0000
%X A search for a neutrino signal from WIMP pair annihilations in the centre of the Earth has been performed with the data collected with the ANTARES neutrino telescope from 2007 to 2012. The event selection criteria have been developed and tuned to maximise the sensitivity of the experiment to such a neutrino signal. No significant excess of neutrinos over the expected background has been observed. Upper limits at 90% C.L. on the WIMP annihilation rate in the Earth and the spin independent scattering cross-section of WIMPs to nucleons sigma(SI)(p) were calculated for WIMP pair annihilations into either iota(+) iota(-), W+W-, b (b) over bar or the non-SUSY v mu(v) over bar as a function of the WIMP mass (between 25 GeV/c(2) and 1000 GeV/c(2)) and as a function of the thermally averaged annihilation cross section times velocity <sigma A(v)>(Earth) of the WIMPs in the centre of the Earth. For masses of the WIMP close to the mass of iron nuclei (50 GeV/c(2)), the obtained limits on sigma(SI)(p) are more stringent than those obtained by other indirect searches.
%K Dark matter
%K Neutrino telescope
%K ANTARES
%K Indirect detection
%K WIMP
%R 10.1016/j.dark.2017.04.005
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.06792
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2017.04.005
%P 41-48