Solar Neutrinos: Probing the Quasi-Isothermal Solar Core Produced by SUSY Dark Matter Particles

Abstract

SNO measurements strongly constrain the central temperature of the Sun within a precision of much less than 1%. This result can be used to constrain the parameter space of SUSY dark matter particle candidates. In this first analysis we find a lower limit for the WIMP mass of 60 GeV, well above the WIMP evaporation limit of 10 GeV. Furthermore, in the event that WIMPs create a quasi-isothermal core within the Sun, they will produce a peculiar distribution of the solar neutrino fluxes measured on Earth. Typically, a WIMP with a mass of 100 GeV and annihilation cross-section of 1E-34 cm^3/sec, will decrease the standard solar model neutrino predictions, by up to 4% for the Cl, by 3% for the heavy water, and by 1% for the Ga detectors.

Accepted for publication in Phy. Rev. Let., 6 pages, 4 figures

References in corpus (2)

• Measurement of the rate of nu_e + d --> p + p + e^- interactions produced by 8B solar neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
• Solar 8B and hep Neutrino Measurements from 1258 Days of Super-Kamiokande Data

Cited by in corpus (31)

• Effect of low mass dark matter particles on the Sun
• A New Precision Measurement of the 7Be(p,gamma)8B Cross section with an Implanted 7Be Target
• Solar neutrinos, helioseismology and the solar internal dynamics
• Indirect detection of light neutralino dark matter in the NMSSM
• Light WIMPs in the Sun: Constraints from Helioseismology
• Does Solar Physics Provide Constraints to Weakly Interacting Massive Particles?
• A New Measurement of the Proton Capture Rate on 7Be and the S17(0) Factor
• Radial oscillations of strange quark stars admixed with condensed dark matter
• The formation and evolution of young low-mass stars within halos with high concentration of dark matter particles
• Solar constraints on asymmetric dark matter
• Gravitational effects of condensed dark matter on strange stars
• Towards the use of asteroseismology to investigate the nature of dark matter
• The capture of dark matter particles through the evolution of low-mass stars
• Probing the Existence of a Dark Matter Isothermal Core Using Gravity Modes
• Solar neutrino physics
• Strange Stars within Bosonic and Fermionic Admixed Dark Matter
• Updated constraints on velocity and momentum-dependent asymmetric dark matter
• Millisecond pulsars modelled as strange quark stars admixed with condensed dark matter
• Probing the Sun's inner core using solar neutrinos: a new diagnostic method
• Dark matter imprint on ${}^8$B neutrino spectrum
• On asymmetric dark matter constraints from the asteroseismology of a subgiant star
• New neutrino physics and the altered shapes of solar neutrino spectra
• Supersymmetric Dark Matter
• The Sun and stars: Giving light to dark matter
• Constraining the parameter space of branon dark matter using white dwarf stars
• The Sun as a probe of Fundamental Physics and Cosmology
• Dark Dwarfs: Dark Matter-Powered Sub-Stellar Objects Awaiting Discovery at the Galactic Center
• Self-gravitating quantum stars with a globally relevant Bohm potential
• Low-mass stars within dense dark matter halos
• Constraining the scalar singlet and inert dark matter models using neutron stars
• Thermomagnetic Ettingshausen-Nernst effect in tachocline, magnetic reconnection phenomenon in lower layers, axion mechanism of solar luminosity variations, coronal heating problem solution and mechanism of ADM variations around BH