Search for Dark Matter WIMPs using Upward Through-going Muons in Super-Kamiokande

By S. Desai, Yasunobu Ashie, S. Fukuda, Y. Fukuda, K. Ishihara, Y. Itow, Y. Koshio, A. Minamino, M. Miura, S. Moriyama and 124 more. 2004

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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 flux limits in various angular cones around each of the above celestial objects. We obtain conservative model-independent upper limits on 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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Extended gamma-ray emission from Coy Dark Matter (2014, background): “J C A P 0 5 ( 2 0 1 4 ) 0 0 9 is orders of magnitude below the limit of 10−38 cm2 from Super-Kamiokande [109].”
Colloquium: Annual modulation of dark matter (2013, background): “This particular case is also uniquely suited to be probed by indirect searches involving detection of neutrinos produced byWIMPs annihilating in the Sun, e.g., with the Super-Kamiokande (Desai et al., 2004) and IceCube detectors (Abbasi et al., 2012).”
AN INDIRECT SEARCH FOR WEAKLY INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES IN THE SUN USING 3109.6 DAYS OF UPWARD-GOING MUONS IN SUPER-KAMIOKANDE (2011, methodology): “A previous WIMP search in SK was done in 2004 using a dataset of 1679.6 days of through- going upmu events (Desai et al. 2004).”