Prospects for detecting dark matter with neutrino telescopes in intermediate mass black hole scenarios
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, Padova I-35131 (Italy)
Current strategies of indirect dark matter detection with neutrino telescopes are based on the search for high-energy neutrinos from the solar core or from the center of the Earth. Here, we propose a new strategy based on the detection of neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in mini-spikes around intermediate mass black holes. Neutrino fluxes, in this case, depend on the annihilation cross-section of dark matter particles, whereas solar and terrestrial fluxes are sensitive to the scattering cross-section off nucleons, a circumstance that makes the proposed search complementary to the existing ones. We discuss the prospects for detection with upcoming underwater and under-ice experiments such as ANTARES and IceCube, and show that several, up to many, sources could be detected with both experiments. A kilometer-scale telescope in the Mediterranean appears to be ideally suited for the proposed search.
- OSTI ID:
- 20774683
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 73, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.103519; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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