Search for Dark Matter Annihilations in the Sun with the 79-String IceCube Detector

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Search for Dark Matter Annihilations in the Sun with the 79-String IceCube Detector

A. O'murchadha O. Engdegård S. Hussain D. J. Koskinen Chris Wendt Elisa Resconi J. Berdermann S. Schöneberg Ignacio Taboada A. Haj Ismail J. Blumenthal M. Wellons Dariusz Gora A. Goldschmidt Peter Mészáros M. Usner Olga Botner R. Bruijn S. C. Nowicki Allan Hallgren C. Finley K. Frantzen B. Riedel S. Schoenen J. J. Beatty L. Köpke J. Auffenberg A. Obertacke Hans Niederhausen M. Merck A. Bernhard M. Schmitz K. Jero W. Huelsnitz S. Cohen N. Kurahashi K. Mase Ch. Weaver S. Bechet K. Hoshina J. A. Pepper D. Heereman A. Schukraft O. Fadiran Gerald Przybylski H. S. Matis A. Zilles J. Posselt M. Zoll K. Rawlins S. Böser D. Bindig M. W. E. Smith K. Helbing Mike Richman M. Lesiak-bzdak P. Redl E. A. Strahler K. Schatto G. Kohnen A. Stößl O. Jlelati M. Scheel S. Tilav M. Krasberg Glenn Spiczak U. Naumann K. H. Becker Reina H. Maruyama James Madsen M. L. Benabderrahmane M. Kowalski T. Meures Rasha Abbasi R. W. Ellsworth R. Nahnhauer J. Miller M. Vraeghe Donglian Xu P. B. Price Hermann Kolanoski L. Rädel T. Ruhe N. Whitehorn C. De Clercq O. Schulz T. Waldenmaier Juanan Aguilar L. Brayeur M. Soiron D. Bertrand J. Casey Montaruli26 Teresa B. Ruzybayev M. Olivo S. Yoshida L. Schönherr E. Jacobi R. Ström M. Wolf Francis Halzen P. Zarzhitsky J. Becker Tjus C. Pfendner Christian Spiering E. Middell Elisa Bernardini M. Ribordy D. Z. Besson Michael S. Bell Kirill Filimonov Markus Ackermann B. Christy M. Danninger L. Paul A. Tamburro J. Van Santen A. Van Overloop M. Casier L. Schulte L. Mohrmann J. Eisch V. Baum J. Feintzeig F. Mcnally Christian Bohm T. Schmidt C. Pérez De Los Heros N. Pirk T. Fischer-wasels Kael Hanson Segev Benzvi Spencer Klein Spencer Klein S. Seunarine M. J. Carson Fabian Kislat J. C. Díaz-vélez S. Kopper M. Baker J. Lünemann G. De Vries-uiterweerd H. G. Sander Todor Stanev Dawn Williams M. Gurtner Jenni Adams K. Beattie R. C. Bay Steven W. Barwick A. Franckowiak G. C. Hill Axel Groß R. Hoffmann L. Gladstone F. Clevermann R. Franke D. Seckel S. Miarecki S. Miarecki M. Voge R. Eagan H. Taavola Kara Hoffman A. H. Cruz Silva J.-h. Köhne H. Wissing A. R. Fazely Tyce Deyoung P. A. Toale T. Feusels Paolo Desiati S. Bohaichuk Y. Sestayo M. Dunkman S. Hickford D. Soldin C. Kopper G. Golup Thomas K. Gaisser G. B. Yodh R. G. Stokstad B. Eberhardt Xinhua Bai K. Wiebe J. P. Yanez N. Van Eijndhoven R. Morse Wolfgang Rhode J. E. Jacobsen Marcos Santander J. L. Kelley E. Blaufuss J. C. Davis K. Clark P. Berghaus A. Homeier T. Glüsenkamp J. Kläs M. Wallraff Carsten Rott Dave Nygren Jürgen Brunner P. Heimann S. Euler L. Gerhardt L. Gerhardt Markus Ahlers M. Bissok D. Berley M. G. Aartsen J. Kunnen Christopher Wiebusch J. Daughhetee B. Kaminsky G. Kroll J. Leute S. Odrowski F. Scheriau Michael Stamatikos Damian Pieloth P. O. Hulth Xianwu Xu S. Toscano A. M. Brown J. A. Goodman T. Fuchs J. Ziemann Albrecht Karle Samvel Ter-antonyan A. Stasik A. Schönwald D. Ryckbosch S. Zierke G. W. Sullivan K. Meagher D. Heinen S. H. Seo Aya Ishihara Darren Grant Chun Xu T. Salameh S. De Ridder C. Walck D. Altmann M. Labare M. Vehring D. F. Cowen C. Ha C. Ha Stijn Buitink C. Sheremata S. Westerhoff T. R. Wood Kurt Woschnagg Paul Evenson Dmitry Chirkin D. Bose Alexander Kappes T. Karg T. Kuwabara Klas Hultqvist J. Kiryluk A. Fedynitch J. P. Rodrigues T. Stezelberger S. M. Saba R. Hellauer S. Flis J. Dreyer Y. Abdou Jay Gallagher M. J. Larson A. Olivas D. Van Der Drift D. Van Der Drift R. Wasserman H. Landsman D. J. Boersma D. J. Boersma Subir Sarkar N. Milke George Japaridze

subject

Particle physics Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Dark matter FOS: Physical sciences General Physics and Astronomy Cosmic ray ddc:500.2 MASSIVE PARTICLES Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics 7. Clean energy 01 natural sciences IceCube High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)LIMITS WIMP 0103 physical sciences ddc:550 010306 general physics Light dark matter CANDIDATES High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)Physics 010308 nuclear & particles physics Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics CONSTRAINTS CAPTURE NEUTRINOS Physics and Astronomy Neutrino detector 13. Climate action Weakly interacting massive particles High Energy Physics::Experiment Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Neutrino Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

description

We have performed a search for muon neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the center of the Sun with the 79-string configuration of the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the first time, the DeepCore sub-array is included in the analysis, lowering the energy threshold and extending the search to the austral summer. The 317 days of data collected between June 2010 and May 2011 are consistent with the expected background from atmospheric muons and neutrinos. Upper limits are therefore set on the dark matter annihilation rate, with conversions to limits on spin-dependent and spin-independent WIMP-proton cross-sections for WIMP masses in the range 20 - 5000 GeV. These are the most stringent spin-dependent WIMP-proton cross-sections limits to date above 35 GeV.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2012-12-17	Physical Review Letters

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.110.131302