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Title: Future sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to dark matter annihilations from the cosmic diffuse neutrino signal

Abstract

Cosmological observations and cold dark matter N-body simulations indicate that our Universe is populated by numerous halos, where dark matter particles annihilate, potentially producing Standard Model particles. In this paper we calculate the contribution to the diffuse neutrino background from dark matter annihilations in halos at all redshifts and we estimate the future sensitivity to the annihilation cross section of neutrino telescopes such as IceCube or ANTARES. We consider various parametrizations to describe the internal halo properties and for the halo mass function in order to bracket the theoretical uncertainty in the limits from the modeling of the cosmological annihilation flux. We find that observations of the cosmic diffuse neutrino flux at large angular distances from the galactic center lead to constraints on the dark matter annihilation cross section which are complementary to (and for some extrapolations of the astrophysical parameters, better than) those stemming from observations of the Milky Way halo, especially for neutrino telescopes not pointing directly to the Milky Way center, as is the case of IceCube.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. CFTP, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisboa (Portugal)
  2. Physik-Department T30d, Technische Univertität München, James-Franck-Straße, 85748 Garching (Germany)
  3. Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-Universitat de València, Apartado de Correos 22085, E-46071 València (Spain)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22525795
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2015; Journal Issue: 06; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; ANNIHILATION; ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; COSMIC NEUTRINOS; CROSS SECTIONS; DISTANCE; EXTRAPOLATION; LIMITING VALUES; MASS; MILKY WAY; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; POTENTIALS; RED SHIFT; SENSITIVITY; STANDARD MODEL; TELESCOPES; UNIVERSE

Citation Formats

Moliné, Ángeles, Ibarra, Alejandro, and Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio. Future sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to dark matter annihilations from the cosmic diffuse neutrino signal. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2015/06/005.
Moliné, Ángeles, Ibarra, Alejandro, & Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio. Future sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to dark matter annihilations from the cosmic diffuse neutrino signal. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/06/005
Moliné, Ángeles, Ibarra, Alejandro, and Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio. 2015. "Future sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to dark matter annihilations from the cosmic diffuse neutrino signal". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/06/005.
@article{osti_22525795,
title = {Future sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to dark matter annihilations from the cosmic diffuse neutrino signal},
author = {Moliné, Ángeles and Ibarra, Alejandro and Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio},
abstractNote = {Cosmological observations and cold dark matter N-body simulations indicate that our Universe is populated by numerous halos, where dark matter particles annihilate, potentially producing Standard Model particles. In this paper we calculate the contribution to the diffuse neutrino background from dark matter annihilations in halos at all redshifts and we estimate the future sensitivity to the annihilation cross section of neutrino telescopes such as IceCube or ANTARES. We consider various parametrizations to describe the internal halo properties and for the halo mass function in order to bracket the theoretical uncertainty in the limits from the modeling of the cosmological annihilation flux. We find that observations of the cosmic diffuse neutrino flux at large angular distances from the galactic center lead to constraints on the dark matter annihilation cross section which are complementary to (and for some extrapolations of the astrophysical parameters, better than) those stemming from observations of the Milky Way halo, especially for neutrino telescopes not pointing directly to the Milky Way center, as is the case of IceCube.},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2015/06/005},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22525795}, journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
issn = {1475-7516},
number = 06,
volume = 2015,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}