Search for dark matter towards the Galactic Centre with 11 years of ANTARES data

• DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135439
• Publication Date: 2020-04-21T15:32:04Z
• Authors: A. Albert; M. André; M. Anghinolfi; G. Anton; M. Ardid; J.-J. Aubert; J. Aublin; B. Baret; S. Basa; B. Belhorma; V. Bertin; S. Biagi; M. Bissinger; J. Boumaaza; S. Bourret; M. Bouta; M.C. Bouwhuis; H. Brânzaş; R. Bruijn; J. Brunner; J. Busto; A. Capone; L. Caramete; J. Carr; S. Celli; M. Chabab; T.N. Chau; R. Cherkaoui El M...; T. Chiarusi; M. Circella; A. Coleiro; M. Colomer; R. Coniglione; H. Costantini; P. Coyle; A. Creusot; A.F. Díaz; G. de Wasseige; A. Deschamps; C. Distefano; I. Di Palma; A. Domi; C. Donzaud; D. Dornic; D. Drouhin; T. Eberl; I. El Bojaddaini; N. El Khayati; D. Elsässer; A. Enzenhöfer; A. Ettahiri; F. Fassi; P. Fermani; G. Ferrara; F. Filippini; L. Fusco; P. Gay; H. Glotin; R. Gozzini; R. Gracia Ruiz; K. Graf; C. Guidi; S. Hallmann; H. van Haren; A.J. Heijboer; Y. Hello; J.J. Hernández-Rey; J. Hößl; J. Hofestädt; G. Illuminati; C.W. James; M. de Jong; P. de Jong; M. Jongen; M. Kadler; O. Kalekin; U. Katz; N.R. Khan-Chowdhury; A. Kouchner; M. Kreter; I. Kreykenbohm; V. Kulikovskiy; R. Lahmann; R. Le Breton; D. Lefèvre; E. Leonora; G. Levi; M. Lincetto; D. Lopez-Coto; S. Loucatos; G. Maggi; J. Manczak; M. Marcelin; A. Margiotta; A. Marinelli; J.A. Martínez-Mora; R. Mele; K. Melis; P. Migliozzi; M. Moser; A. Moussa; R. Muller; L. Nauta; S. Navas; E. Nezri; C. Nielsen; A. Nuñez-Castiñeyra; B. O'Fearraigh; M. Organokov; G.E. Păvălaş; C. Pellegrino; M. Perrin-Terrin; P. Piattelli; C. Poirè; V. Popa; T. Pradier; L. Quinn; N. Randazzo; G. Riccobene; A. Sánchez-Losa; A. Salah-Eddine; D.F.E. Samtleben; M. Sanguineti; P. Sapienza; F. Schüssler; M. Spurio; Th. Stolarczyk; B. Strandberg; M. Taiuti; Y. Tayalati; T. Thakore; S.J. Tingay; A. Trovato; B. Vallage; V. Van Elewyck; F. Versari; S. Viola; D. Vivolo; J. Wilms; D. Zaborov; A. Zegarelli; J.D. Zornoza; J. Zúñiga
• Keywords: WIMP; Annihilation; Massive particle

Neutrino detectors participate in the indirect search for fundamental constituents of dark matter (DM) form weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). In WIMP scenarios, candidate DM can pair-annihilate into Standard Model products, yielding considerable fluxes high-energy neutrinos. A detector like ANTARES, located Northern Hemisphere, is able to perform a competitive looking towards Galactic Centre, where high density thought accumulate. Both this directional information and spectral features annihilating pairs are entered an unbinned likelihood method scan data set DM-like signals ANTARES data. Results obtained upon unblinding 11 years presented. non-observation converted limits on velocity-averaged cross section pair annihilation.