Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with Neutrino Telescopes

Extraterrestrial messengers can probe the presence of dark matter in the Milky Way and beyond. Among others, sizable anomalous fluxes of high-energy neutrinos expected from pair annihilation and decay of dark matter particles, giving neutrino telescopes a role in indirect searches. The energy featur...

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Main Author: Gozzini Sara Rebecca
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Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2025-01-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2025/04/epjconf_ricap2024_03003.pdf
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description Extraterrestrial messengers can probe the presence of dark matter in the Milky Way and beyond. Among others, sizable anomalous fluxes of high-energy neutrinos expected from pair annihilation and decay of dark matter particles, giving neutrino telescopes a role in indirect searches. The energy features and space distribution of dark matter overdensity regions are used to characterise a signal to be discriminated from an atmospheric neutrino background. Other than in the main gravitational reservoir at the Galactic Centre, dark matter can be trapped in the Sun by losing energy in interaction with baryons. Its annihilation into neutrinos offers a unique opportunity when searching for a signal from the Sun, for which neutrino telescopes have almost no competitors. This lecture gives a review of experimental methods and results on indirect dark matter searches obtained with neutrino telescope data.
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spelling doaj-art-ca633209cdae44529472ea271b48a4fc2025-08-20T03:07:01ZengEDP SciencesEPJ Web of Conferences2100-014X2025-01-013190300310.1051/epjconf/202531903003epjconf_ricap2024_03003Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with Neutrino TelescopesGozzini Sara Rebecca0Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Parque CientíficoExtraterrestrial messengers can probe the presence of dark matter in the Milky Way and beyond. Among others, sizable anomalous fluxes of high-energy neutrinos expected from pair annihilation and decay of dark matter particles, giving neutrino telescopes a role in indirect searches. The energy features and space distribution of dark matter overdensity regions are used to characterise a signal to be discriminated from an atmospheric neutrino background. Other than in the main gravitational reservoir at the Galactic Centre, dark matter can be trapped in the Sun by losing energy in interaction with baryons. Its annihilation into neutrinos offers a unique opportunity when searching for a signal from the Sun, for which neutrino telescopes have almost no competitors. This lecture gives a review of experimental methods and results on indirect dark matter searches obtained with neutrino telescope data.https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2025/04/epjconf_ricap2024_03003.pdf
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title Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with Neutrino Telescopes
title_full Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with Neutrino Telescopes
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title_short Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with Neutrino Telescopes
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