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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 81, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.096007
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-91ER40664, DE-FG02-04ER41319, DE-FG02-04ER41298]
- U.S. Department of Energy at UCLA [DE-FG03-91ER40662]
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We calculate contained and upward muon flux and contained shower event rates from neutrino interactions, when neutrinos are produced from annihilation of the dark matter in the Galactic center. We consider model-independent direct neutrino production and secondary neutrino production from the decay of taus, W bosons, and bottom quarks produced in the annihilation of dark matter. We illustrate how muon flux from dark matter annihilation has a very different shape than the muon flux from atmospheric neutrinos. We also discuss the dependence of the muon fluxes on the dark matter density profile and on the dark matter mass and of the total muon rates on the detector threshold. We consider both the upward muon flux, when muons are created in the rock below the detector, and the contained flux when muons are created in the ( ice) detector. We also calculate the event rates for showers from neutrino interactions in the detector and show that the signal dominates over the background for 150 GeV < m(x) < 1 TeV for E-sh(th) = 100 GeV.
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