Search for dark matter WIMPs using upward through-going muons in Super-Kamiokande

S Desai,J Yoo,K Miyano,C Mitsuda,T Nakaya,H Maesaka,S Yamada,G Guillian,M Earl,S Mine,T Ishizuka,H Okazawa,R Gran,R Nambu,M Shiozawa,M Ishitsuka,W Wang,Y Watanabe,K Nakamura,A Minamino,C Mcgrew,D Takemori,T Kajita,M Hasegawa,S Tasaka,M Goldhaber,Y Takeuchi,J Kameda,S Moriyama,M Nakahata,J L Stone,Y Hayato,M B Smy,S Matsuno,C Mauger,T Kobayashi,C W Sterner,K Scholberg,I Kato,T Ooyabu,Y Ashie,Y Nagashima,K Kaneyuki,M Sakuda,A Suzuki,K S Ganezer,A Sarrat,J A Goodman,D Casper,A Habig,S Ueda,K Nishijima,R W Ellsworth,E Sharkey,A Kibayashi,T J Haines,R Svoboda,Y Oyama,D W Liu,T Maruyama,T Namba,T Toshito,T Hasegawa,T Barszczak,M Miura,Y Gando,H W Sobel,K Nitta,S Nakayama,M Koshiba,M Morii,T Inagaki,I T Lim,M R Vagins,C Yanagisawa,W R Kropp,A K Ichikawa,S Dazeley,C Saji,C K Jung,T Iwashita,J Zalipska,J P Cravens,C W Walter,R J Wilkes,J Shirai,H Ishino,Y Totsuka,S B Kim,E Blaufuss,T Morita,T Sasaki,Y Koshio,Y Fukuda,G W Sullivan,Y Obayashi,J Hill,M D Messier,K Nishikawa,J Y Kim,S Hatakeyama,Y Choi,M Takita,K Inoue,Y Suzuki,N Sakurai,W Gajewski,W E Keig,Y Itow,K Washburn,E Kearns,J G Learned,M Malek,K Ishihara,T Ishii,H I Kim,Masato Yoshida ,Ryouhei Nishimura ,Takaaki Harada ,Seisuke Fukuda ,Kazuyoshi Kobayashi ,Kiyoshi Shiraishi ,Kenji Hayashi ,Atsushi Okada ,Yuji Kajiyama ,Toru Ishida ,Takashi Kato ,Tadashi Shibata ,Tsuyoshi Hashimoto ,D Kiełczewska ,L Sulak ,Yasuhiro Nakajima ,Hideki Takeuchi ,D Turčan ,H Seo ,Shuji Yamamoto

doi:10.1103/physrevd.70.083523

Search for dark matter WIMPs using upward through-going muons in Super-Kamiokande

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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.70.083523

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Journal: Physical Review D	Publication Date: Oct 19, 2004
Citations: 266

Affiliation: Boston University, Seoul National University, Niigata University, Kyoto University, The University of Tokyo, University of Hawaii System, University of California, Irvine, Shizuoka University, University of Washington, Tokyo Institute of Technology, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, State University of New York, Stony Brook University, Gifu University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Osaka University, Kobe University, California State University, Dominguez Hills, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Tokai University, George Mason University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Nagoya University, Tohoku University, Chonnam National University, University of Warsaw, Indiana University Bloomington, Sungkyunkwan University

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We present the results of indirect searches for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), with 1679.6 live days of data from the Super-Kamiokande detector using neutrino-induced upward through-going muons. The search is performed by looking for an excess of high energy muon neutrinos from WIMP annihilations in the Sun, the core of the Earth, and the Galactic Center, as compared to the number expected from the atmospheric neutrino background. No statistically significant excess was seen. We calculate the flux limits in various angular cones around each of the above celestial objects. We obtain conservative model-independent upper limits on the WIMP-nucleon cross section as a function of WIMP mass, and compare these results with the corresponding results from direct dark matter detection experiments.

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