SIGNALS OF NEUTRALINO DARK-MATTER FROM EARTH AND SUN

Citation
A. Bottino et al., SIGNALS OF NEUTRALINO DARK-MATTER FROM EARTH AND SUN, Astroparticle physics, 3(1), 1995, pp. 65-75
Citations number
35
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics","Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal title
ISSN journal
09276505
Volume
3
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
65 - 75
Database
ISI
SICI code
0927-6505(1995)3:1<65:SONDFE>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We evaluate the fluxes of up-going muons detectable in a neutrino tele scope and due to the annihilation of relic neutralinos in the Earth an d in the Sun, taking realistically into account the fact that neutrali nos might provide only a fraction of the local (solar neighbourhood) d ark matter (DM). We determine the relation between the exposure At of the neutrino telescope (A being the telescope area, t the life time) a nd the explorable range of the neutralino mass and composition, when t he signal-to-background ratio is optimized by an appropriate angular s election.