Indirect Dark Matter search towards the Sun with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Abstract

Abstract Dark Matter particles, such as Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs) gravitationally captured in massive celestial objects, can be indirectly detected through their annihilation into Standard Model particles. The centres of those massive objects are, therefore, places where to look for a possible high energy neutrino flux excess from dark matter annihilations, using neutrino telescopes. The deep-sea neutrino telescope ANTARES, located in the Mediterranean Sea, has been shown to be very competitive in the quest for Dark Matter WIMPs produced in the Galactic Centre. A closer potential DM source is the Sun, where it is possible to have a very clean signal since the background from astrophysical origin is expected to be very low. In this work we show the expected sensitivity of a search for Dark Matter WIMPs from the Sun, using 13 years of data collected by ANTARES.