The AMANDA neutrino telescope and the indirect search for dark matter: AMANDA Colaboration

• Published in: Physics reports Vol. 307; no. 1; pp. 243 - 252
• Main Authors: Bay, R.C., He, Y., Lowder, D., Miocinovic, P., Price, P.B., Solarz, M., Woschnagg, K., Barwick, S.W., Booth, J., Mock, P.C., Porrata, R., Schneider, E., Yodh, G., Cowen, D., Carlson, M., Costa, C.G.S., DeYoung, T., Gray, L., Halzen, F., Hardtke, R., Jacobsen, J., Kankhadai, V., Karle, A., Liubarsky, I., Morse, R., Tilav, S., Miller, T.C., Andrés, E.C., Askebjer, P., Bergström, L., Bouchta, A., Dalberg, E., Ekström, P., Goobar, A., Hulth, P.O., Walck, C., Hallgren, A., Heros, C.P.de los, Marciniewski, P., Rubinstein, H., Carius, S., Lindahl, P., Biron, A., Hundertmark, S., Leuthold, M., Niessen, P., Spiering, C., Streicher, O., Thon, T., Wiebusch, C.H., Wischnewski, R., Nygren, D., Jones, A., Hart, S., Potter, D., Hill, G., Schwarz, R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 1998
• Subjects: formula omitted; ■; 95.35+d
• ISSN: 0370-1573; 1873-6270; 1873-6270
• DOI: 10.1016/S0370-1573(98)00041-6

With an effective telescope area of order 10
4
m
2, a threshold of ∼50
GeV and a pointing accuracy of 2.5°, the AMANDA detector represents the first of a new generation of high energy neutrino telescopes, reaching a scale envisaged over 25 years ago. We describe its performance, focussing on the capability to detect halo dark matter particles via their annihilation into neutrinos.