The AMANDA neutrino telescope and the indirect search for dark matter
Apr, 199816 pages
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- Phys.Rept. 307 (1998) 243-252
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- hep-ex/9804007 [hep-ex]
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- MADPH-98-1050
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Abstract:
With an effective telescope area of order 10^4 m^2, a threshold of ~50 GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2.5 degrees, the AMANDA detector represents the first of a new generation of high energy neutrino telescopes, reaching a scale envisaged over 25 years ago. We describe its performance, focussing on the capability to detect halo dark matter particles via their annihilation into neutrinos.Note:
- Latex2.09, 16 pages, uses epsf.sty to place 15 postscript figures. Talk presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe (DM98), Santa Monica, California, Feb. 1998 Report-no: MADPH-98-1050
- talk: Santa Monica 1998/02/18
- dark matter
- WIMP: annihilation
- neutrino: counters and detectors
- neutrino nucleon: interaction
- charged current
- muon: cosmic radiation
- angular distribution
- Cherenkov counter: water
- AMANDA
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