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An indirect search for weakly interacting massive particles in the sun using 3109.6days of upward-going muons in super-kamiokande

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Tanaka, T; Abe, K; Hayato, Y; Iida, T; Kameda, J; Koshio, Y; Kouzuma, Y; Miura, M; Moriyama, S; Nakahata, M; Nakayama, S; Obayashi, Y ...
Published in: Astrophysical Journal
December 1, 2011

We present the result of an indirect search for high energy neutrinos from Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) annihilation in the Sun using upward-going muon (upmu) events at Super-Kamiokande. Data sets from SKI-SKIII (3109.6days) were used for the analysis. We looked for an excess of neutrino signal from the Sun as compared with the expected atmospheric neutrino background in three upmu categories: stopping, non-showering, and showering. No significant excess was observed. The 90% C.L. upper limits of upmu flux induced by WIMPs of 100GeV c-2 were 6.4 × 10-15cm -2s-1 and 4.0 × 10-15cm -2s-1 for the soft and hard annihilation channels, respectively. These limits correspond to upper limits of 4.5 × 10 -39cm-2 and 2.7 × 10-40cm-2 for spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross sections in the soft and hard annihilation channels, respectively. © 2011. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

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Astrophysical Journal

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1538-4357

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0004-637X

Publication Date

December 1, 2011

Volume

742

Issue

2

Related Subject Headings

  • Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • 5109 Space sciences
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5101 Astronomical sciences
  • 0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
 

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Tanaka, T., Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iida, T., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., … Koshiba, M. (2011). An indirect search for weakly interacting massive particles in the sun using 3109.6days of upward-going muons in super-kamiokande. Astrophysical Journal, 742(2). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/742/2/78
Tanaka, T., K. Abe, Y. Hayato, T. Iida, J. Kameda, Y. Koshio, Y. Kouzuma, et al. “An indirect search for weakly interacting massive particles in the sun using 3109.6days of upward-going muons in super-kamiokande.” Astrophysical Journal 742, no. 2 (December 1, 2011). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/742/2/78.
Tanaka T, Abe K, Hayato Y, Iida T, Kameda J, Koshio Y, et al. An indirect search for weakly interacting massive particles in the sun using 3109.6days of upward-going muons in super-kamiokande. Astrophysical Journal. 2011 Dec 1;742(2).
Tanaka, T., et al. “An indirect search for weakly interacting massive particles in the sun using 3109.6days of upward-going muons in super-kamiokande.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 742, no. 2, Dec. 2011. Scopus, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/742/2/78.
Tanaka T, Abe K, Hayato Y, Iida T, Kameda J, Koshio Y, Kouzuma Y, Miura M, Moriyama S, Nakahata M, Nakayama S, Obayashi Y, Sekiya H, Shiozawa M, Suzuki Y, Takeda A, Takenaga Y, Ueno K, Ueshima K, Yamada S, Yokozawa T, Ishihara C, Hazama S, Kaji H, Kajita T, Kaneyuki K, McLachlan T, Okumura K, Shimizu Y, Tanimoto N, Dufour F, Kearns E, Litos M, Raaf JL, Stone JL, Sulak LR, Cravens JP, Bays K, Kropp WR, Mine S, Regis C, Smy MB, Sobel HW, Ganezer KS, Hill J, Keig WE, Jang JS, Kim JY, Lim IT, Albert JB, Scholberg K, Walter CW, Wendell R, Wongjirad T, Ishizuka T, Tasaka S, Learned JG, Matsuno S, Smith S, Martens K, Vagins M, Watanabe Y, Hasegawa T, Ishida T, Ishii T, Kobayashi T, Nakadaira T, Nakamura K, Nishikawa K, Nishino H, Oyama Y, Sakashita K, Sekiguchi T, Tsukamoto T, Suzuki AT, Takeuchi Y, Ikeda M, Minamino A, Nakaya T, Labarga L, Fukuda Y, Itow Y, Mitsuka G, Jung CK, McGrew C, Lopez G, Yanagisawa C, Tamura N, Ishino H, Kibayashi A, Sakuda M, Kuno Y, Yoshida M, Kim SB, Yang BS, Okazawa H, Choi Y, Nishijima K, Yokosawa Y, Koshiba M. An indirect search for weakly interacting massive particles in the sun using 3109.6days of upward-going muons in super-kamiokande. Astrophysical Journal. 2011 Dec 1;742(2).
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Published In

Astrophysical Journal

DOI

EISSN

1538-4357

ISSN

0004-637X

Publication Date

December 1, 2011

Volume

742

Issue

2

Related Subject Headings

  • Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • 5109 Space sciences
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5101 Astronomical sciences
  • 0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences