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All-flavour search for neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Milky Way with IceCube/DeepCore
dc.contributor.author | Aartsen, M. G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Abraham, K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ackermann, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Adams, J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Aguilar, J. A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ahlers, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ahrens, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Altmann, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Andeen, K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Anderson, T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ansseau, I. | |
dc.contributor.author | Anton, G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Archinger, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Arguelles, C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Arlen, T. C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Besson, David Zeke | |
dc.contributor.author | IceCube Collaboration | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-30T17:26:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-30T17:26:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-09-28 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Aartsen, M. G., Abraham, K., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., . . . Zoll, M. (2016). All-flavour search for neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Milky Way with IceCube/DeepCore. The European Physical Journal C, 76(10). doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4375-3 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25217 | |
dc.description.abstract | We present the first IceCube search for a signal of dark matter annihilations in the Milky Way using all-flavour neutrino-induced particle cascades. The analysis focuses on the DeepCore sub-detector of IceCube, and uses the surrounding IceCube strings as a veto region in order to select starting events in the DeepCore volume. We use 329 live-days of data from IceCube operating in its 86-string con-figuration during 2011–2012. No neutrino excess is found, the final result being compatible with the background-only hypothesis. From this null result, we derive upper limits on the velocity-averaged self-annihilation cross-section, σAv, for dark matter candidate masses ranging from 30 GeV up to 10 TeV, assuming both a cuspy and a flat-cored dark matter halo profile. For dark matter masses between 200 GeV and 10 TeV, the results improve on all previous IceCube results on σAv, reaching a level of 10−23 cm3 s−1, depending on the annihilation channel assumed, for a cusped NFW profile. The analysis demonstrates that all-flavour searches are competitive with muon channel searches despite the intrinsically worse angular resolution of cascades compared to muon tracks in IceCube. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | SCOAP3 | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | en_US |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.title | All-flavour search for neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Milky Way with IceCube/DeepCore | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Besson, David Zeke | |
kusw.kudepartment | Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4375-3 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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