June 22, 2020 to July 2, 2020
US/Central timezone

Indirect detection of dark matter at INO

Not scheduled
10m

Speaker

Dr Deepak Tiwari (PICO, University of Montreal)

Description

Neutrino fluxes arising from WIMP annihilation in the center of the sun($\odot$), earth($\oplus$) and galaxy can leave detectable signatures at the proposed 50-kt Iron Calorimeter (ICAL)
detector at the upcoming India-Based Neutrino Observatory (INO). Although the atmospheric neutrinos will pose a
serious background to such signal neutrinos, exploiting the excellent angular resolution of the ICAL detector we can
suppress it considerably. The expected 90 % C.L. exclusion sensitivity limits for 500 kt-years exposure for $\tau^{+} \tau^{-}$ channel (100 % branching ratio)
for WIMP-nucleon Spin Dependent ($\sigma_{SD}$) and Spin Independent ($\sigma_{SI}$) cross-section
are found to be $\sigma_{SD,\odot} < 6.87\times 10^{-41}$ cm$^2$ and $\sigma_{SI,\odot} < 7.75\times 10^{-43}$ cm$^2$ for
the WIMP mass ($m_{\chi}$) = 25 GeV, and $\sigma_{SI,\oplus} =1.02\times 10^{-44}~\mathrm{cm}^2$ for $m_{\chi}$ =52.14 GeV.

Mini-abstract

We present prospects of detection of dark matter annihilation signatures at INO

Experiment/Collaboration INO

Primary author

Dr Deepak Tiwari (PICO, University of Montreal)

Co-authors

Anushree Ghosh Prof. Sandhya Choubey (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)

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