Recent results from the ANTARES deep sea neutrino telescope

Abstract

The ANTARES deep sea neutrino telescope has acquired over four years of high quality data. This data has been used to measure the oscillation parameters of atmospheric neutrinos and also to search for neutrinos of a nonterrestrial origin. Competitive upper limits on the fluxes of neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the Sun, a variety of Galactic and extra-galactic sources, both steady and transient, are presented.

Search for muon signal from dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the Baksan Underground Scintillator Telescope for 24.12 years

“…upper limits on SD cross section are shown in figure 11 in comparison with experimental results from direct and indirect DM searches. Here we show recent limits of Super-Kamiokande [16], IceCube [17], ANTARES [18,61,62], PICASSO [63], KIMS [64], SIMPLE [65], CMS [66] and ATLAS [67] collaborations. A signal range of DAMA [10,11] experiment is also depicted.…”

Neutrinos and dark matter

“…The limits derived by the IceCube collaboration on the spin-independent and spin-dependent dark matter-proton interaction cross section, assuming annihilations into bb or W + W − (or ττ for m DM < M W ), are shown in Fig.5 (taken from [21]). Complementary limits have been published by the Super-Kamiokande [22], Baksan [23] and ANTARES [24] collaborations. Remarkably, for annihilation channels producing hard neutrinos, such as W + W − or τ + τ − , the limits on the spin-dependent interaction cross section are more stringent than those reported by the most sensitive current experiments probing the same interaction, COUPP [25] and SIMPLE [26].…”