Speaker
Mr
Gordon Lim
(NIKHEF / ANTARES)
Description
The ANTARES undersea neutrino telescope consists of a 3D grid of 900
photomultiplier tubes arranged in 12 strings, at a depth of 2475 m in the
Mediterranean Sea. After deployment of the first strings in 2006, half of the
detector is now fully operational and the complete detector is foreseen to
be finished in early 2008. Relic neutralinos produced after the Big Bang
are favoured candidates for Dark Matter. They can accumulate at the centre
of massive celestial objects like our Sun. Their annihilation can result in a
high-energy neutrino flux that could be detectable as a localised emission
with earth-based neutrino telescopes like ANTARES. A brief overview of the
prospects of the indirect search for Dark Matter particles with the ANTARES
detector will be given. The analysis method and expected performance for
the detection of the expected neutrinos will be discussed.
Author
Mr
Gordon Lim
(NIKHEF / ANTARES)
