30 September 2014 to 3 October 2014
C.U.M.O. Noto (SR), Italy
Europe/Rome timezone
RICAP-14 The Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics in Noto, Sicily, Italy

Secluded Dark Matter search in the Sun with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

30 Sept 2014, 18:50
20m
C.U.M.O. Noto (SR), Italy

C.U.M.O. Noto (SR), Italy

Speaker

Ms Silvia Adrián Martínez (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)

Description

Models where Dark Matter (DM) is secluded from the Standard Model via a mediator have increased their presence during the last decade to explain some experimental observations. This is a special scenario where DM, which would gravitationally accumulate in sources like the Sun, the Earth or the Galactic Centre, is annihilated into a non-standard Model mediator which subsequently decays into Standard Model particles, two co-linear muons for example. As the lifetime of the mediator could be large enough, its decay may occur in the vicinity of the Earth and the resulting SM particles could be detected. In this work we will describe the analysis for secluded dark matter coming from the Sun with ANTARES in three different cases: a) detection of di-muons that result of the mediator decay, or neutrino detection from: b) mediator that decays into di-muon and, in turn, into neutrinos, and c) mediator that directly decays into neutrinos. Sensitivities and results of the analysis for each case will be presented.

Primary author

Ms Silvia Adrián Martínez (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)

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