Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the most popular candidates for particle dark matter. In certain scenarios, WIMPs could be gravitationally captured into massive celestial objects and then annihilate into Standard Model particles, possibly leading to the emission of neutrinos. The ANTARES neutrino telescope, located in the Mediterranean Sea, is sensitive to neutrinos with energies ranging from a few tens of GeV to the TeV scale, making it well suited to search for the annihilation of WIMPs with masses below a few TeV/c$^2$. One of the closest potential astrophysical sources of neutrinos from WIMP annihilations is the Sun. In this work, a search for high-energy neutrinos originating from the Sun, using the full dataset recorded by ANTARES from 2007 to 2022 was conducted. The analysis yielded no significant evidence for a neutrino excess over the expected background, and upper limits on the WIMP-proton interaction cross section have been obtained, for both spin-dependent and spin-independent processes. These limits are valid for dark matter masses ranging from 35 GeV/c$^2$ to 10 TeV/c$^2$ for the annihilation benchmark channels WIMP$+$WIMP $\longrightarrow$ $b\bar{b},τ^+τ^-, W^+W^-$, assuming a 100$\%$ branching ratio for each of these channels. These results improve on those previously obtained by the ANTARES Collaboration by a factor of two-three and are consistent with those reported by other experiments in direct and indirect searches for dark matter.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Albert, A., Alves, S., André, M., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aubert, J. -J., Aublin, J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Becherini, Y., Belhorma, B., Benfenati, F., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brânzaş, H., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carenini, F., Carr, J., Carretero, V., Cartraud, T., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coelho, J. A. B., Coleiro, A., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Díaz, A. F., De Martino, B., Distefano, C., Di Palma, I., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Eddymaoui, A., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., Hedri, S. El, Enzenhöfer, A., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filippini, F., Fusco, L. A., Gagliardini, S., García-Méndez, J., Oliver, C. Gatius, Gay, P., Geißelbrecht, N., Glotin, H., Gozzini, R., Ruiz, R. Gracia, Graf, K., Guidi, C., Haegel, L., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hennig, L., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Hößl, J., Huang, F., Illuminati, G., Jisse-Jung, B., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Lazo, A., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Levi, G., Stum, S. Le, Loucatos, S., Manczak, J., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Migliozzi, P., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Navas, S., Nezri, E., Fearraigh, B. Ó, Oukacha, E., Păun, A. M., Păvălaş, G. E., Peña-Martínez, S., Perrin-Terrin, M., Piattelli, P., Poirè, C., Pradier, T., Randazzo, N., Real, D., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Losa, A. Sánchez, Saina, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D. F. E., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schüssler, F., Seneca, J., Spurio, M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tayalati, Y., Vallage, B., Vannoye, G., Van Elewyck, V., Viola, S., Vivolo, D., Wilms, J., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J.
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Haute-Alsace, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Université de Strasbourg, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universitat de València, Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat Politècnica de València, Aix-Marseille Université, Centre de physique des particules de Marseille, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie, National Centre for Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, University of Bologna, University of Würzburg, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Mohammed V University, Mohamed I University, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, National Institute for Laser Plasma and Radiation Physics, Institute of Space Science - INFLPR Subsidiary, University of Amsterdam, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, Institut Méditerranéen d’Océanologie, University of Naples Federico II, Cadi Ayyad University, Université de Toulon, Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Universidad de Granada, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université Paris-Sud, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, University of Salerno, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma I, Sapienza University of Rome, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli, Université Clermont Auvergne, Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont Auvergne, Université Blaise Pascal, University of Genoa, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Géoazur, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Leiden University, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Paris-Saclay - Etablissement de Saclay, Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, European Commission, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Generalitat Valenciana, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Conseil Régional Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Conseil Régional d'Alsace, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Labex UnivEarthS, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
Awards: G1323502114, G1451311200, G1571383463, G1623744669, G1918719652, G2045273392, G2794008154, G3382648788, G3590787598, G3793059268, G4062681842, G5752261212, G603588730, G6314331178, G6364395297, G701241157, Université de Paris, Earth - Planets - Universe: observation, modeling, transfer, G8930446
OpenAlex ID: W7214979217