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| DOI | 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/05/006 | ||||
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The annihilation of Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMP) in the centre of the sun could give rise to neutrino fluxes. We study the prospects of searching for these neutrinos at the upcoming Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) detector to be housed at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). We perform ICAL simulations to obtain the detector efficiencies and resolutions in order to simulate muon events in ICAL due to neutrinos coming from annihilation of WIMP in the mass range m(chi) = (3 - 100) GeV. The atmospheric neutrinos pose a major background for these indirect detection studies and can be reduced using the fact that the signal comes only from the direction of the sun. For a given WIMP mass, we find the opening angle theta(90) such that 90 % of the signal events are contained within this angle and use this cone-cut criteria to reduce the atmospheric neutrino background. The reduced background is then weighted by the solar exposure function at INO to obtain the final background spectrum for a given WIMP mass. We perform a chi(2) analysis and present expected exclusion regions in the sigma(SD) - m(chi) and sigma(SI) - m(chi), where sigma(SD) and sigma(SI) are the WIMP-nucleon Spin-Dependent (SD) and Spin-Independent (SI) scattering cross-section, respectively. For a 10 years exposure and m(chi) = 25 GeV, the expected 90 % C. L. exclusion limit is found to be sigma(SD) < 6.87 x 10(-41) cm(2) and sigma(SI) < 7.75 x 10(-43) cm(2) for the tau(+) tau(-) annihilation channel and sigma(SD) < 1.14 x 10(-39) cm(2) and sigma(SI) < 1.30 x 10(-41) cm(2) for the b (b) over bar channel, assuming 100 % branching ratio for each of the WIMP annihilation channel.
| Ord. | Autor | Género | Institución - País |
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| 1 | Choubey, Sandhya | Mujer |
Harish Chandra Res Inst HBNI - India
AlbaNova Univ Ctr - Suecia Harish Chandra Research Institute - India AlbaNova University Center - Suecia AlbaNova Universitetscentrum - Suecia |
| 2 | Ghosh, A. | - |
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Chile
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| 3 | Tiwari, Deepak | Hombre |
Harish Chandra Res Inst HBNI - India
Harish Chandra Research Institute - India |
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| CONICYT |
| Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico |
| Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica |
| FONDECYT (Chile) |
| Comisión Nacional de Investigación CientÃfica y Tecnológica |
| Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico, Tecnológico y de Innovación Tecnológica |
| Horizon 2020 |
| Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo CientÃfico, Tecnológico y de Innovación Tecnológica |
| Horizon 2020 Framework Programme |
| Department of Atomic Energy |
| INO collaboration |
| Institute for Translational Neuroscience |
| Marie Sklodowska-Curie |
| European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme Elusives ITN under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant |
| European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme InvisiblesPlus RISE under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant |
| European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme InvisiblesPlus |
| Agradecimiento |
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| We gratefully acknowledge the INO collaboration for support. We sincerely thank Amol Dighe for intensive discussions. DT acknowledges K. K. Meghna, Moon Moon Devi, Ali Ajmi and Gobinda Majumadar for help with ICAL simulations performed in this work. We acknowledge the HRI cluster computing facility (http://cluster.hri.res.in). The authors would like to thank the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Neutrino Project of Harish-Chandra Research Institute. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme InvisiblesPlus RISE under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 690575. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Elusives ITN under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 674896. This work is also funded by Conicyt PIA/Basal FB0821. This project has received funding from FONDECYT 3170845 (Chile). |
| The authors would like to thank the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Neutrino Project of Harish-Chandra Research Institute. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme InvisiblesPlus RISE under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 690575. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Elusives ITN under theMarie Sklodowska- Curie grant agreement No 674896. This work is also funded by Conicyt PIA/Basal FB0821. This project has received funding from FONDECYT 3170845 (Chile). |