Turck-Chieze, S., Garcia, R. A., Lopes, I., Ballot, J., Couvidat, S., Mathur, S., Salabert, D. and Silk, J. (2012), "FIRST STUDY OF DARK MATTER PROPERTIES WITH DETECTED SOLAR GRAVITY MODES
AND NEUTRINOS", ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 746, 1.
Abstract: We derive new limits on the cold dark matter properties for weakly
interacting massive particles (WIMPs), potentially trapped in the solar
core by using for the first time the central temperature constrained by
boron neutrinos and the central density constrained by the dipolar
gravity modes detected with the Global Oscillations at Low
Frequency/Solar Helioseismic Observatory instrument. These detections
disfavor the presence of non-annihilating WIMPs for masses <= 10 GeV and
spin dependent cross-sections >5 x 10(-36) cm(2) in the solar core but
cannot constrain WIMP annihilation models. We suggest that in the coming
years helio- and asteroseismology will provide complementary probes of
dark matter.
Keywords: dark matter; neutrinos; Sun: helioseismology
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