Dark matter annihilation inside Earth would melt a substantial fraction of the inner core for cross sections previously allowed by surface heat-flow limits.
Search for dark matter towards the Galactic Centre with 11 years of ANTARES data
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Neutrino detectors participate in the indirect search for the fundamental constituents of dark matter (DM) in form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). In WIMP scenarios, candidate DM particles can pair-annihilate into Standard Model products, yielding considerable fluxes of high-energy neutrinos. A detector like ANTARES, located in the Northern Hemisphere, is able to perform a competitive search looking towards the Galactic Centre, where a high density of dark matter is thought to accumulate. Both this directional information and the spectral features of annihilating DM pairs are entered into an unbinned likelihood method to scan the data set in search for DM-like signals in ANTARES data. Results obtained upon unblinding 11 years of data are presented. A non-observation of dark matter is converted into limits on the velocity-averaged cross section for WIMP pair annihilation.
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Can a Dark Inferno Melt Earth's Core?
Dark matter annihilation inside Earth would melt a substantial fraction of the inner core for cross sections previously allowed by surface heat-flow limits.