Neutrino physics with the Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope

The neutrino experiment at the Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope is operating for 35 years. We present an updated analysis of observed upward through-going muons in searches for a signal from dark matter annihilations in the Sun and the astrophysical local sources

Annihilation of NMSSM neutralinos in the Sun and neutrino telescope limits

We investigate neutralino dark matter in the framework of NMSSM performing a scan over its parameter space and calculating neutralino capture and annihilation rates in the Sun. We discuss the prospects of searches for neutralino dark matter in neutrino experiments depending on neutralino content and its main annihilation channel. We recalculate the upper limits on neutralino-proton elastic cross sections directly from neutrino telescopes upper bounds on annihilation rates in the Sun. This procedure has advantages as compared with corresponding recalcalations from the limits on muon flux, namely, it is independent on details of the experiment and the recalculation coefficients are universal for any kind of WIMP dark matter models. We derive 90% c.l. upper limits on neutralino-proton cross sections from the results of the Baksan Underground Scintillator Telescope.Comment: 28 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in JCAP, references adde

Indirect Neutralino Detection Rates in Neutrino Telescopes

Neutralinos annihilating in the center of the Sun or the Earth may give rise to a detectable signal of neutrinos. We derive the indirect detection rates for neutrino telescopes in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model. We show that even after imposing all phenomenological and experimental constraints that make the theories viable, regions of parameter space exist which can already be probed by existing neutrino telescopes. We compare with the discovery potential of supersymmetry at LEP2 as well as direct detections and point out the complementarity of the methods.Comment: LaTeX, 18 pages with 9 eps-figure