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Indirect search for dark matter from the Galactic Center and halo with the Super-Kamiokande detector

C. Bronner,Y. Haga,Y. Hayato,M. Ikeda,S. Imaizumi,Hiroshi Itô,K. Iyogi,J. Kameda,Y. Kataoka,Yoshiaki Kato,Y. Kishimoto,Ll. Marti,Makoto Miura,S. Moriyama,T. Mochizuki,Y. Nagao,M. Nakahata,Yoshikazu Nakajima,Tetsuo Nakajima,S. Nakayama,T. Okada,A. Orii,G. Pronost,H. Sekiya,M. Shiozawa,Y. Sonoda,Atsushi Takeda,A. Takenaka,S. Tasaka,T. Tomura,K. Ueno,T. Yano,T. Yokozawa,R. Akutsu,Shuo Han,T. J. Irvine,T. Kajita,I. Kametani,K.P. Lee,T. C. Mclachlan,K. Okumura,E. Richard,Takuya Tashiro,L. Wan,J. Xia,D. Bravo-Berguño,L. Labarga,P. Fernández,F. d. M. Blaszczyk,J. Gustafson,C. Kachulis,E. Kearns,J. L. Raaf,J. L. Stone,L. Sulak,S. Sussman,L. Wan,T. Wester,S. Berkman,S. Tobayama,Jian-Guo Bian,G. Carminati,M. Elnimr,N. J. Griskevich,William R. Kropp,S. Locke,S. Mine,A. Renshaw,M. B. Smy,H.W. Sobel,Volodymyr Takhistov,P. Weatherly,B. L. Hartfiel,J. Hill,W. E. Keig,Nguyễn Thị Hồng,J.Y. Kim,I. T. Lim,R.G. Park,T. Akiri,B. Bodur,A. Himmel,Z. Li,Erin O’Sullivan,K. Scholberg,Christopher W. Walter,T. Wongjirad,A. Coffani,O. Drapier,S. El Hedri,A. Giampaolo,M. Gonin,J. Imber,T. Mueller,P. Paganini,B. Quilain,T. Ishizuka,T. Nakamura,J.S. Jang,K. Choi,J.G. Learned,S. Matsuno,S. N. Smith,Jake Lewis Amey,L. H. V. Anthony,R. P. Litchfield,A. A. Sztuc,Y. Uchida,M. O. Wascko,V. Berardi,M.G. Catanesi,R. A. Intonti,E. Radicioni,N. F. Calabria,L. N. Machado,G. De Rosa,G. Collazuol,F. Iacob,M. Lamoureux,N. Ospina,L. Ludovici,T. Boschi,F. Di Lodovico,S. Molina Sedgwick,S. Zsoldos,Y. Nishimura,S. Cao,M. Friend,T. Hasegawa,Toru Ishida,T. Ishii,T. Kobayashi,T. Nakadaira,Y. Oyama,K. Sakashita,T. Sekiguchi,T. Tsukamoto,K. Abe,Makoto Hasegawa,Yuki Isobe,H. Miyabe,Y. Nakano,T. Shiozawa,Takashi Sugimoto,A. Suzuki,Y. Takeuchi,S. Yamamoto,A. Ali,Yosuke Ashida,T. Hayashino,T. Hiraki,S. Hirota,K. Huang,K. Ieki,Miao Jiang,T. Kikawa,M. Mori,Akira Murakami,K. Nakamura,T. Nakaya,N. Patel,Kenta Suzuki,Satoshi Takahashi,K. Tateishi,R. Wendell,N. McCauley,P. Mehta,A. Pritchard,K. M. Tsui,Y. Fukuda,Y. Itow,H. Menjo,G. Mitsuka,M. Murase,Fumihito Muto,T. Niwa,K. Sato,Takumi Suzuki,M. Taani,M. Tsukada,P. Mijakowski,K. Frankiewicz,J. Hignight,C. K. Jung,X. Li,J. L. Palomino,G. Santucci,C. Vilela,M. J. Wilking,C. Yanagisawa,Daisuke Fukuda,K. Hagiwara,Masayuki Harada,T. Horai,H. Ishino,S. Ito,T. Kayano,A. Kibayashi,Y. Koshio,W.Y. Ma,Takaaki Mori,Hiroshi Nagata,N. Piplani,M. Sakuda,Shunya Seiya,Y. Takahira,C. J. Xu,Ryoji Yamaguchi,Y. Kuno,G. Barr,D. Barrow,L. Cook,C. Simpson,D. Wark,F. Nova,R. Tacik,J. Yang,Andrew A. Cole,S. J. Jenkins,J. Mcelwee,M. Thiesse,L. F. Thompson,H. Okazawa,S.B. Kim,Y. Choi,K. Ito,K. Nishijima,K. Iwamoto,M. Koshiba,Y. Suda,M. Yokoyama,R. G. Calland,A. Goldsack,K. Martens,M. Murdoch,Yoshihiro Suzuki,M. R. Vagins,D. Hamabe,M. Kuze,Y. Okajima,Masayuki Tanaka,T. Yoshida,M. Inomoto,M. Ishitsuka,R. Matsumoto,Kazutoshi Ohta,M. Shinoki,J.F. Martin,C. Nantais,Hirohisa Tanaka,T. Towstego,M. Hartz,A. Konaka,P. de Perio,N.W. Prouse,S. Chen,B. D. Xu,Y. Zhang,B. Richards,K. Connolly,R. J. Wilkes,B. Jamieson,John M. Walker,P. Giorgio,A. Minamino,Ken‐ichi Okamoto,G. Pintaudi

Physics
WIMP
Particle physics
2020
We present a search for an excess of neutrino interactions due to dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) annihilating in the Galactic center or halo based on the data set of Super-Kamiokande-I, -II, -III and -IV taken from 1996 to 2016. We model the neutrino flux, energy, and flavor distributions assuming WIMP self-annihilation is dominant to $\ensuremath{\nu}\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}$, ${\ensuremath{\mu}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{\ensuremath{-}}$, $b\overline{b}$, or ${W}^{+}{W}^{\ensuremath{-}}$. The excess is in comparison to atmospheric neutrino interactions which are modeled in detail and fit to data. Limits on the self-annihilation cross section $⟨{\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{A}V⟩$ are derived for WIMP masses in the range 1 GeV to 10 TeV, reaching as low as $9.6\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}23}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{3}\text{ }{\mathrm{s}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ for 5 GeV WIMPs in $b\overline{b}$ mode and $1.2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}24}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{3}\text{ }{\mathrm{s}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ for 1 GeV WIMPs in $\ensuremath{\nu}\overline{\ensuremath{\nu}}$ mode. The obtained sensitivity of the Super-Kamiokande detector to WIMP masses below several tens of GeV is the best among similar indirect searches to date.
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    Indirect search for dark matter from the Galactic Center and halo with the Super-Kamiokande detector” is a paper by C. Bronner Y. Haga Y. Hayato M. Ikeda S. Imaizumi Hiroshi Itô K. Iyogi J. Kameda Y. Kataoka Yoshiaki Kato Y. Kishimoto Ll. Marti Makoto Miura S. Moriyama T. Mochizuki Y. Nagao M. Nakahata Yoshikazu Nakajima Tetsuo Nakajima S. Nakayama T. Okada A. Orii G. Pronost H. Sekiya M. Shiozawa Y. Sonoda Atsushi Takeda A. Takenaka S. Tasaka T. Tomura K. Ueno T. Yano T. Yokozawa R. Akutsu Shuo Han T. J. Irvine T. Kajita I. Kametani K.P. Lee T. C. Mclachlan K. Okumura E. Richard Takuya Tashiro L. Wan J. Xia D. Bravo-Berguño L. Labarga P. Fernández F. d. M. Blaszczyk J. Gustafson C. Kachulis E. Kearns J. L. Raaf J. L. Stone L. Sulak S. Sussman L. Wan T. Wester S. Berkman S. Tobayama Jian-Guo Bian G. Carminati M. Elnimr N. J. Griskevich William R. Kropp S. Locke S. Mine A. Renshaw M. B. Smy H.W. Sobel Volodymyr Takhistov P. Weatherly B. L. Hartfiel J. Hill W. E. Keig Nguyễn Thị Hồng J.Y. Kim I. T. Lim R.G. Park T. Akiri B. Bodur A. Himmel Z. Li Erin O’Sullivan K. Scholberg Christopher W. Walter T. Wongjirad A. Coffani O. Drapier S. El Hedri A. Giampaolo M. Gonin J. Imber T. Mueller P. Paganini B. Quilain T. Ishizuka T. Nakamura J.S. Jang K. Choi J.G. Learned S. Matsuno S. N. Smith Jake Lewis Amey L. H. V. Anthony R. P. Litchfield A. A. Sztuc Y. Uchida M. O. Wascko V. Berardi M.G. Catanesi R. A. Intonti E. Radicioni N. F. Calabria L. N. Machado G. De Rosa G. Collazuol F. Iacob M. Lamoureux N. Ospina L. Ludovici T. Boschi F. Di Lodovico S. Molina Sedgwick S. Zsoldos Y. Nishimura S. Cao M. Friend T. Hasegawa Toru Ishida T. Ishii T. Kobayashi T. Nakadaira Y. Oyama K. Sakashita T. Sekiguchi T. Tsukamoto K. Abe Makoto Hasegawa Yuki Isobe H. Miyabe Y. Nakano T. Shiozawa Takashi Sugimoto A. Suzuki Y. Takeuchi S. Yamamoto A. Ali Yosuke Ashida T. Hayashino T. Hiraki S. Hirota K. Huang K. Ieki Miao Jiang T. Kikawa M. Mori Akira Murakami K. Nakamura T. Nakaya N. Patel Kenta Suzuki Satoshi Takahashi K. Tateishi R. Wendell N. McCauley P. Mehta A. Pritchard K. M. Tsui Y. Fukuda Y. Itow H. Menjo G. Mitsuka M. Murase Fumihito Muto T. Niwa K. Sato Takumi Suzuki M. Taani M. Tsukada P. Mijakowski K. Frankiewicz J. Hignight C. K. Jung X. Li J. L. Palomino G. Santucci C. Vilela M. J. Wilking C. Yanagisawa Daisuke Fukuda K. Hagiwara Masayuki Harada T. Horai H. Ishino S. Ito T. Kayano A. Kibayashi Y. Koshio W.Y. Ma Takaaki Mori Hiroshi Nagata N. Piplani M. Sakuda Shunya Seiya Y. Takahira C. J. Xu Ryoji Yamaguchi Y. Kuno G. Barr D. Barrow L. Cook C. Simpson D. Wark F. Nova R. Tacik J. Yang Andrew A. Cole S. J. Jenkins J. Mcelwee M. Thiesse L. F. Thompson H. Okazawa S.B. Kim Y. Choi K. Ito K. Nishijima K. Iwamoto M. Koshiba Y. Suda M. Yokoyama R. G. Calland A. Goldsack K. Martens M. Murdoch Yoshihiro Suzuki M. R. Vagins D. Hamabe M. Kuze Y. Okajima Masayuki Tanaka T. Yoshida M. Inomoto M. Ishitsuka R. Matsumoto Kazutoshi Ohta M. Shinoki J.F. Martin C. Nantais Hirohisa Tanaka T. Towstego M. Hartz A. Konaka P. de Perio N.W. Prouse S. Chen B. D. Xu Y. Zhang B. Richards K. Connolly R. J. Wilkes B. Jamieson John M. Walker P. Giorgio A. Minamino Ken‐ichi Okamoto G. Pintaudi published in 2020. It has an Open Access status of “hybrid”. You can read and download a PDF Full Text of this paper here.