Oscillation of neutrinos produced by the annihilation of dark matter inside the Sun

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作者
Esmaili, Arman [1 ,2 ]
Farzan, Yasaman [2 ]
机构
[1] Sharif Univ Technol, Dept Phys, Tehran, Iran
[2] Inst Res Fundamental Sci IPM, Sch Phys, Tehran, Iran
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2010年 / 81卷 / 11期
关键词
CAPTURE; SPECTRA; MODELS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.113010
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The annihilation of dark matter particles captured by the Sun can lead to a neutrino flux observable in neutrino detectors. Considering the fact that these dark matter particles are nonrelativistic, if a pair of dark matter annihilates to a neutrino pair, the spectrum of neutrinos will be monochromatic. We show that in this case, even after averaging over the production point inside the Sun, the oscillatory terms of the oscillation probability do not average to zero. This leads to interesting observable features in the annual variation of the number of muon track events. We show that smearing of the spectrum due to thermal distribution of dark matter inside the Sun is too small to wash out this variation. We point out the possibility of studying the initial flavor composition of neutrinos produced by the annihilation of dark matter particles via measuring the annual variation of the number of mu-track events in neutrino telescopes.
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