Indirect search for dark matter with neutrino telescopes

TL;DR

This paper reviews how neutrino telescopes like ANTARES, IceCube, and KM3NeT are used to search for dark matter by detecting neutrinos from various astrophysical sources, highlighting their current status and future potential.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the role and capabilities of neutrino telescopes in indirect dark matter detection, emphasizing recent results and future prospects.

Findings

Neutrino telescopes offer unique sensitivity to spin-dependent WIMP interactions.

The Sun provides the most sensitive environment for certain dark matter searches.

Current and upcoming telescopes have promising potential for future discoveries.

Abstract

The quest to understand the nature dark matter is one of the most relevant ones in Particle Physics nowadays, since it constitutes most of the matter of the Universe and it is still unknown what it is made of. In order to answer to this question, a multi-front attack is needed because our knowledge of its properties is very incomplete. Among the different experimental strategies, neutrino telescopes are very relevant tools. There are several promising sources to look at: the Sun, the Galactic Center, the Earth, dwarf galaxies, galaxy clusters... As an example of the power of neutrino telescopes, we can mention the analysis of the Sun, which offers the best sensitivity for spin dependent WIMP-nucleon scattering and is free of alternative astrophysical interpretations. In this talk I will review the status and prospects of the main present and future neutrino telescopes: ANTARES, IceCube and KM3NeT.