Limits on dark matter WIMPs using upward-going muons in the MACRO detector- art. no. 082002.

Authors
Ambrosio, M Antolini, R Aramo, C Auriemma, G Baldini, A Barbarino, GC Barish, BC Battistoni, G Bellotti, R Bemporad, C Bernardini, E Bernardini, P Bilokon, H Bisi, V Bloise, C Bower, C Bussino, S Cafagna, F Calicchio, R Campana, D Carboni, M Castellano, M Cecchini, S Cei, F Chiarella, V Choudhary, BC Coutu, S De Benedictis, L De Cataldo, G Dekhissi, H De Marzo, C De Mitri, I Derkaoui, J De Vincenzi, M Di Credico, A Diehl, E Erriquez, O Favuzzi, C Forti, C Fusco, P Giacomelli, G Giannini, G Giglietto, N Giorgini, M Grassi, M Gray, L Grillo, A Guarino, F Guarnaccia, P Gustavino, C Habig, A Hanson, K Heinz, R Huang, Y Iarocci, E Katsavounidis, E Katsavounidis, I Kearns, E Kim, H Kyriazopoulou, S Lamanna, E Lane, C Lari, T Levin, DS Lipari, P Longley, NP Longo, MJ Maaroufi, F Mancarella, G Mandrioli, G Manzoor, S Neri, AM Marini, A Martello, D Marzari-Chiesa, A Mazziotta, MN Mazzotta, C Michael, DG Mikheyev, S Miller, L Monacelli, P Montaruli, T Monteno, M Mufson, S Musser, J Nicolo, D Orth, C Osteria, G Ouchrif, M Palamara, O Patera, V Patrizii, L Pazzi, R Peck, CW Petrera, S Pistilli, P Popa, V Raino, A Rastelli, A Reynoldson, J Ronga, F Sanzgiri, A Satriano, C Satta, L Scapparone, E Scholberg, K Sciubba, A Serra-Lugaresi, P Severi, M Sioli, M Sitta, M Spinelli, P Spinetti, M Spurio, M Steinberg, R Stone, JL Sulak, LR Surdo, A Tarle, G Togo, V Ugolotti, D Vakili, M Walter, CW Webb, R
Citation
M. Ambrosio et al., Limits on dark matter WIMPs using upward-going muons in the MACRO detector- art. no. 082002., PHYS REV D, 6008(8), 1999, pp. 2002
Citations number
43
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
ISSN journal
05562821 → ACNP
Volume
6008
Issue
8
Year of publication
1999
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(19991015)6008:8<2002:LODMWU>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
We perform an indirect search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIM Ps) using the MACRO detector to look for neutrino-induced upward-going muon s resulting from the annihilation of WIMPs trapped in the Sun and Earth. Th e search is conducted in various angular cones centered on the Sun and Eart h to accommodate a range of WIMP masses. No significant excess over the bac kground from atmospheric neutrinos is seen. We set experimental flux limits on the upward-going muon fluxes the Sun and the Earth. These limits are us ed to constrain neutralino particle parameters from supersymmetric theory, including those suggested by recent results from DAMA-NaI. [S0556-2821(99)0 4118-1].