The Search for Neutralino Dark Matter with the AMANDA-B10 Detector

If dark matter in the Universe is constituted by super-symmetric particles in the form of neutralinos then these can accumulate gravitationally in the center of the Earth and annihilate therein. This annihilation process generates a neutrino flux that can be measured as up-going near-vertical muons in a detector like AMANDA. These up-going muons will result in an excess on top of the atmospheric neutrinos coming through the Earth from the northern hemisphere. An original analysis is presented for the search with AMANDA data for muons induced by neutralino annihilation in the center of the Earth. The comparison of the number of observed data events with the number of expected atmospheric neutrinos is used to calculate an upper limit on both the annihilation rate of neutralinos and the corresponding muon flux.