Limits on the muon flux from neutralino annihilations at the center of the Earth with AMANDA Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A search has been performed for nearly vertically upgoing neutrino-induced muons with the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), using data taken over the three year period 1997-99. No excess above the expected atmospheric neutrino background has been found. Upper limits at 90% confidence level have been set on the annihilation rate of neutralinos at the center of the Earth, as well as on the muon flux at AMANDA induced by neutrinos created by the annihilation products. 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Achterberg, A., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Ahrens, J., Andeen, K., Atlee, D. W., ... Zornoza, J. D.

citation count

  • 22

complete list of authors

  • Achterberg, A||Ackermann, M||Adams, J||Ahrens, J||Andeen, K||Atlee, DW||Bahcall, JN||Bai, X||Baret, B||Bartelt, M||Barwick, SW||Bay, R||Beattie, K||Becka, T||Becker, JK||Becker, K-H||Berghaus, P||Berley, D||Bernardini, E||Bertrand, D||Besson, DZ||Blaufuss, E||Boersma, DJ||Bohm, C||Böser, S||Botner, O||Bouchta, A||Bouhali, O||Braun, J||Burgess, C||Burgess, T||Castermans, T||Chirkin, D||Clem, J||Conrad, J||Cooley, J||Cowen, DF||D’Agostino, MV||Davour, A||Day, CT||De Clercq, C||Desiati, P||DeYoung, T||Diaz-Velez, JC||Dreyer, J||Duvoort, MR||Edwards, WR||Ehrlich, R||Ekström, P||Ellsworth, RW||Evenson, PA||Fadiran, O||Fazely, AR||Feser, T||Filimonov, K||Gaisser, TK||Gallagher, J||Ganugapati, R||Geenen, H||Gerhardt, L||Goldschmidt, A||Goodman, JA||Gozzini, R||Greene, MG||Grullon, S||Groß, A||Gunasingha, RM||Gurtner, M||Hallgren, A||Halzen, F||Han, K||Hanson, K||Hardtke, D||Hardtke, R||Harenberg, T||Hart, JE||Hauschildt, T||Hays, D||Heise, J||Helbing, K||Hellwig, M||Herquet, P||Hill, GC||Hodges, J||Hoffman, KD||Hoshina, K||Hubert, D||Hughey, B||Hulth, PO||Hultqvist, K||Hundertmark, S||Hülß, J-P||Ishihara, A||Jacobsen, J||Japaridze, GS||Jones, A||Joseph, JM||Kampert, K-H||Karle, A||Kawai, H||Kelley, JL||Kestel, M||Klein, SR||Klepser, S||Kohnen, G||Kolanoski, H||Köpke, L||Krasberg, M||Kuehn, K||Landsman, H||Leich, H||Leuthold, M||Liubarsky, I||Lundberg, J||Madsen, J||Marciniewski, P||Mase, K||Matis, HS||McCauley, T||McParland, CP||Meli, A||Messarius, T||Mészáros, P||Minaeva, Y||Miočinović, P||Miyamoto, H||Mokhtarani, A||Montaruli, T||Morey, A||Morse, R||Movit, SM||Münich, K||Nahnhauer, R||Nam, JW||Neunhöffer, T||Nießen, P||Nygren, DR||Ögelman, H||Olbrechts, Ph||Olivas, A||Patton, S||Peña-Garay, C||Pérez de los Heros, C||Piegsa, A||Pieloth, D||Pohl, AC||Porrata, R||Pretz, J||Price, PB||Przybylski, GT||Rawlins, K||Razzaque, S||Refflinghaus, F||Resconi, E||Rhode, W||Ribordy, M||Rizzo, A||Robbins, S||Rodrı´guez Martino, J||Rott, C||Rutledge, D||Sander, H-G||Schlenstedt, S||Schneider, D||Schwarz, R||Seckel, D||Seo, SH||Seunarine, S||Silvestri, A||Smith, AJ||Solarz, M||Song, C||Sopher, JE||Spiczak, GM||Spiering, C||Stamatikos, M||Stanev, T||Steffen, P||Stezelberger, T||Stokstad, RG||Stoufer, MC||Stoyanov, S||Strahler, EA||Sulanke, K-H||Sullivan, GW||Sumner, TJ||Taboada, I||Tarasova, O||Tepe, A||Thollander, L||Tilav, S||Toale, PA||Turčan, D||van Eijndhoven, N||Vandenbroucke, J||Voigt, B||Wagner, W||Walck, C||Waldmann, H||Walter, M||Wang, Y-R||Wendt, C||Wiebusch, CH||Wikström, G||Williams, DR||Wischnewski, R||Wissing, H||Woschnagg, K||Xu, XW||Yodh, G||Yoshida, S||Zornoza, JD

publication date

  • September 2006