Tracing Tau-Neutrinos from WIMP-Annihilation
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Accumulation and annihilation of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the earth and the sun may be observed by the resulting neutrino signal. We demonstrate that, for certain parts of the SUSY parameter space, present and future neutrino telescopes can expect a higher rate of events due to tau-neutrinos than due to muon-neutrinos. We show how neutrino-oscillation, and in the case of the sun also scattering, absorption and regeneration modify the signal expectation.
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