Phys. Rev. D 70, 083523 (2004) [11 pages]
Search for dark matter WIMPs using upward through-going muons in Super-Kamiokande
S. Desai et al. The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration
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S. Desai3, Y. Ashie1, S. Fukuda1, Y. Fukuda1, K. Ishihara1, Y. Itow1, Y. Koshio1, A. Minamino1, M. Miura1, S. Moriyama1, M. Nakahata1, T. Namba1, R. Nambu1, Y. Obayashi1, N. Sakurai1, M. Shiozawa1, Y. Suzuki1, H. Takeuchi1, Y. Takeuchi1, S. Yamada1, M. Ishitsuka2, T. Kajita2, K. Kaneyuki2, S. Nakayama2, A. Okada2, T. Ooyabu2, C. Saji2, M. Earl3, E. Kearns3, J. L. Stone3, L. R. Sulak3, C. W. Walter3, W. Wang3, M. Goldhaber4, T. Barszczak5, D. Casper5, J. P. Cravens5, W. Gajewski5, W. R. Kropp5, S. Mine5, D. W. Liu5, M. B. Smy5, H. W. Sobel5, C. W. Sterner5, M. R. Vagins5, K. S. Ganezer6, J. Hill6, W. E. Keig6, J. Y. Kim7, I. T. Lim7, R. W. Ellsworth8, S. Tasaka9, G. Guillian10, A. Kibayashi10, J. G. Learned10, S. Matsuno10, D. Takemori10, M. D. Messier11, Y. Hayato12, A. K. Ichikawa12, T. Ishida12, T. Ishii12, T. Iwashita12, J. Kameda12, T. Kobayashi12, T. Maruyama12 *, K. Nakamura12, K. Nitta12, Y. Oyama12, M. Sakuda12, Y. Totsuka12, A. T. Suzuki13, M. Hasegawa14, K. Hayashi14, T. Inagaki14, I. Kato14, H. Maesaka14, T. Morita14, T. Nakaya14, K. Nishikawa14, T. Sasaki14, S. Ueda14, S. Yamamoto14, T. J. Haines15,5, S. Dazeley16, S. Hatakeyama16, R. Svoboda16, E. Blaufuss17, J. A. Goodman17, G. W. Sullivan17, D. Turcan17, K. Scholberg18, A. Habig19, C. K. Jung20, T. Kato20, K. Kobayashi20, M. Malek20, C. Mauger20, C. McGrew20, A. Sarrat20, E. Sharkey20, C. Yanagisawa20, T. Toshito21, C. Mitsuda22, K. Miyano22, T. Shibata22, Y. Kajiyama23, Y. Nagashima23, M. Takita23, M. Yoshida23, H. I. Kim24, S. B. Kim24, J. Yoo24, H. Okazawa25, T. Ishizuka26, Y. Choi27, H. K. Seo27, Y. Gando28, T. Hasegawa28, K. Inoue28, J. Shirai28, A. Suzuki28, M. Koshiba29, T. Hashimoto30, Y. Nakajima30, K. Nishijima30, T. Harada31, H. Ishino31, M. Morii31, R. Nishimura31, Y. Watanabe31, D. Kielczewska32,5, J. Zalipska32, R. Gran33, K. K. Shiraishi33, K. Washburn33, and R. J. Wilkes33 (The Super Kamiokande Collaboration)
1Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu, 506-1205, Japan
2 Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
3Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
4Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
5Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA
6 Department of Physics, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747, USA
7 Department of Physics, Chonnam National University, Kwangju 500-757, Korea
8Department of Physics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA
9Department of Physics, Gifu University, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
10Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
11Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7105, USA
12High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
13Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
14Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
15Physics Division, P-23, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA
16Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
17Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
18Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
19Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota 55812-2496, USA
20Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
21Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
22Department of Physics, Niigata University, Niigata, Niigata 950-2181, Japan
23Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
24Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
25International and Cultural Studies, Shizuoka Seika College, Yaizu, Shizuoka, 425-8611, Japan
26Department of Systems Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8561, Japan
27Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
28Research Center for Neutrino Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
29The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
30 Department of Physics, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan
31Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute for Technology, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
32Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland
33Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1560, USA
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Received 10 March 2004; published 19 October 2004; publisher error corrected 9 November 2004
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.
©2004 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v70/e083523
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.083523
PACS: 95.35.+d, 14.80.–j
* Present address: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Publisher's Note:
S. Desai et al. The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration,
Publisher's Note: Search for dark matter WIMPs using upward through-going muons in Super-Kamiokande [Phys. Rev. D 70, 083523 (2004)],
Phys. Rev. D 70, 109901 (2004)
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