Search for secluded dark matter towards the Galactic Centre with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

A. Albert (1, 2) , S. Alves , M. Andre , M. Anghinolfi , G. Anton , M. Ardid , S. Ardid , J.-J. Aubert (3) , J. Aublin (4) , B. Baret (4) , S. Basa (5) , B. Belhorma , M. Bendahman (4) , F. Benfenati , V. Bertin (3) , S. Biagi , M. Bissinger , J. Boumaaza , M. Bouta , M.C. Bouwhuis , H. Branzas , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner (3) , J. Busto (3) , B. Caiffi , D. Calvo , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr (3) , V. Carretero , S. Celli , M. Chabab , T.N. Chau (4) , R. Cherkaoui El Moursli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , A. Coleiro (4) , R. Coniglione , P. Coyle (3) , A. Creusot (4) , A.F. Diaz , G. de Wasseige (4) , C. Distefano , I. Di Palma , A. Domi , C. Donzaud (4, 6) , D. Dornic (3) , D. Drouhin (1, 2) , T. Eberl , T. van Eeden , D. van Eijk , N. El Khayati , A. Enzenhoefer (3) , P. Fermani , G. Ferrara , F. Filippini , L. Fusco (3) , Y. Gatelet (4) , P. Gay (4, 7) , H. Glotin (8) , R. Gozzini , R. Gracia Ruiz , K. Graf , C. Guidi , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren , A.J. Heijboer , Y. Hello (9) , J.J. Hernandez-Rey , J. Hoessl , J. Hofestaedt , F. Huang (3) , G. Illuminati (4) , C.W. James , B. Jisse-Jung , M. de Jong , P. de Jong , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , N.R. Khan-Chowdhury , A. Kouchner (4) , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , C. Lagunas Gualda , R. Lahmann , R. Le Breton (4) , S. Lestum (3) , D. Lefevre , E. Leonora , G. Levi , M. Lincetto (3) , D. Lopez-Coto , S. Loucatos (4, 10) , L. Maderer (4) , J. Manczak , M. Marcelin (5) , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J.A. Martinez-Mora , B. Martino (3) , K. Melis , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , R. Muller , L. Nauta , S. Navas , E. Nezri (5) , B.O. Fearraigh , A. Paun , G.E. Pavalas , C. Pellegrino , M. Perrin-Terrin (3) , V. Pestel , P. Piattelli , C. Pieterse , C. Poire , V. Popa , T. Pradier , N. Randazzo , D. Real , S. Reck , G. Riccobene , A. Romanov , F. Sala (11) , A. Sanchez-Losa , F. Salesa Greus , D.F.E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schnabel , J. Schumann , F. Schuessler (10) , J. Seneca , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk (10) , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , S.J. Tingay , B. Vallage (4, 10) , V. van Elewyck (4, 12) , F. Versari (4) , S. Viola , D. Vivolo , J. Wilms , S. Zavatarelli , A. Zegarelli , J.D. Zornoza , J. Zuniga

1 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
2 Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar
3 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
4 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
5 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
6 IPNO - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay
7 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont
8 LIS - Laboratoire d'Informatique et des Systèmes (LIS) (Marseille, Toulon)
9 GEOAZUR 7329 - Géoazur
10 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
11 LPTHE - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies
12 IUF - Institut universitaire de France

Searches for dark matter (DM) have not provided any solid evidence for the existence of weakly interacting massive particles in the GeV-TeV mass range. Coincidentally, the scale of new physics is being pushed by collider searches well beyond the TeV domain. This situation strongly motivates the exploration of DM masses much larger than a TeV. Secluded scenarios contain a natural way around the unitarity bound on the DM mass, via the early matter domination induced by the mediator of its interactions with the Standard Model. High-energy neutrinos constitute one of the very few direct accesses to energy scales above a few TeV. An indirect search for secluded DM signals has been performed with the ANTARES neutrino telescope using data from 2007 to 2015. Upper limits on the DM annihilation cross section for DM masses up to 6 PeV are presented and discussed.

Mots clés: dark matter: mass; neutrino: detector; neutrino: energy: high; dark matter: annihilation; up: mass; scale: new physics; cross section: annihilation; TeV; ANTARES; unitarity; mediation; WIMP; solids; galaxy

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]; Physique des Hautes Energies - Phénoménologie [hep-ph]

A. Albert, S. Alves, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton, et al.. Search for secluded dark matter towards the Galactic Centre with the ANTARES neutrino telescope. JCAP, 2022, 06 (06), pp.028. ⟨10.1088/1475-7516/2022/06/028⟩. ⟨hal-03622099⟩