Model-Independent Comparison of Direct vs. Indirect Detection of Supersymmetric Dark Matter

Abstract

We compare the rate for elastic scattering of neutralinos from various nuclei with the flux of upward muons induced by energetic neutrinos from neutralino annihilation in the Sun and Earth. We consider both scalar and axial-vector interactions of neutralinos with nuclei. We find that the event rate in a kg of germanium is roughly equivalent to that in a $10^5$- to $10^7$-m${}^2$ muon detector for a neutralino with primarily scalar coupling to nuclei. For an axially coupled neutralino, the event rate in a 50-gram hydrogen detector is roughly the same as that in a 10- to 500-m${}^2$ muon detector. Expected experimental backgrounds favor forthcoming elastic-scattering detectors for scalar couplings while the neutrino detectors have the advantage for axial-vector couplings.

10 pages, self-unpacking uuencoded PostScript file

References in corpus (1)

• Neutrinos From Particle Decay in the Sun and Earth

Cited by in corpus (61)

• Supersymmetric Dark Matter
• Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with the Euclid Satellite
• Non-Baryonic Dark Matter - Observational Evidence and Detection Methods
• Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Euclid satellite
• DarkSUSY: Computing Supersymmetric Dark Matter Properties Numerically
• Wino Cold Dark Matter from Anomaly-Mediated SUSY Breaking
• Search for Dark Matter WIMPs using Upward Through-going Muons in Super-Kamiokande
• Dark-Matter Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments
• Non-Universal Soft SUSY Breaking and Dark Matter
• Generalized Analysis of Weakly-Interacting Massive Particle Searches
• An Indirect Search for WIMPs in the Sun using 3109.6 days of upward-going muons in Super-Kamiokande
• Indirect Detection of Dark Matter in km-size Neutrino Telescopes
• A Statistical Analysis of Supersymmetric Dark Matter in the MSSM after WMAP
• Can WIMP Spin Dependent Couplings explain DAMA data, in light of Null Results from Other Experiments?
• Galactic Substructure and Direct Detection of Dark Matter
• Kinetic decoupling of neutralino dark matter
• Multi-Component Dark Matter Systems and Their Observation Prospects
• Neutralino Dark Matter, b-tau Yukawa Unification and Non-Universal Sfermion Masses
• Triaxial Haloes and Particle Dark Matter Detection
• Neutralino Dark Matter Detection in Split Supersymmetry Scenarios
• A General Analysis of Direct Dark Matter Detection: From Microphysics to Observational Signatures
• Limits on the WIMP-nucleon scattering cross-section from neutrino telescopes
• Applications and Techniques for Fast Machine Learning in Science
• New Limits on Dark Matter from Super-Kamiokande
• Dark matter in the solar system II: WIMP annihilation rates in the Sun
• The New DAMA Dark-Matter Window and Energetic-Neutrino Searches
• Search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector
• Theory, Phenomenology, and Prospects for Detection of Supersymmetric Dark Matter
• Helioseismology as a New Constraint on SUSY Dark Matter
• Prospects For Detecting Dark Matter With Neutrino Telescopes In Light Of Recent Results From Direct Detection Experiments
• Testing the Dark Matter Interpretation of the DAMA/LIBRA Result with Super-Kamiokande
• Search for direct pair production of supersymmetric partners to the $\tau$ lepton in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
• IceHEP High Energy Physics at the South Pole
• Searches for pair production of third-generation squarks in sqrt(s) = 13 TeV pp collisions
• Tools for Studying Low-Mass Dark Matter at Neutrino Detectors
• Enhanced Sensitivity to Dark Matter Self-annihilations in the Sun using Neutrino Spectral Information
• Prospects for dark matter detection with IceCube in the context of the CMSSM
• Implications of CDMS II result on Higgs sector in the MSSM
• Dark Matter Detection With Electron Neutrinos in Liquid Scintillation Detectors
• An Ultimate Target for Dark Matter Searches
• Pinning down inelastic dark matter in the Sun and in direct detection
• A search for new phenomena in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV in final states with missing transverse momentum and at least one jet using the alphaT variable
• Non-thermal X-rays from the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster and dark matter annihilation
• Galactic Substructure and Energetic Neutrinos from the Sun and the Earth
• Multicomponent Dark Matter in Radiative Seesaw Models
• Light Dark Matter Detection Prospects at Neutrino Experiments
• Dark Matter Phenomenology of SM and Enlarged Higgs Sectors Extended with Vector Like Leptons
• Supersymmetry: From the Fermi Scale to the Planck Scale
• Indirect Detection of a Light Higgsino Motivated by Collider Data
• Particle Dark Matter Physics: An Update
• Dark Matter in the Simplest Little Higgs Model
• Multicomponent Dark Matter in Radiative Seesaw Model and Monochromatic Neutrino Flux
• Dark Matter in split extended supersymmetry
• A halo-independent lower bound on the dark matter capture rate in the Sun from a direct detection signal
• Tracing Tau-Neutrinos from WIMP-Annihilation
• WIMP dark matter in gauge-mediated SUSY breaking models and its phenomenology
• Direct Detection Constraints on Dark Matter Event Rates in Neutrino Telescopes, and Collider Implications
• Neutrinos from Off-Shell Final States and the Indirect Detection of Dark Matter
• Dark Matter Constituents
• Interpreting the bounds on Solar Dark Matter induced muons at Super-Kamiokande in the light of CDMS results
• Astro-Particle Physics