WIMP Mass Determination with Neutrino Telescopes
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چکیده
Weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs) annihilating in the center of the Sun or the Earth may give rise to energetic neutrinos which might be discovered by astronomical neutrino detectors. The angular distribution of the neutrino-induced muons is considered in detail via Monte Carlo simulations. It is shown that large underground Čerenkov neutrino telescopes might be able to extract the WIMP mass from the width of the muon angular distribution.
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