First search for dark matter annihilations in the Earth with the IceCube detector
We present the results of the first IceCube search for dark matter annihilation in the center of the Earth. Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), candidates for dark matter, can scatter off nuclei inside the Earth and fall below its escape velocity. Over time the captured WIMPs will be accum...
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ftcdlib:oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5350s08s 2024-01-14T10:10:45+01:00 First search for dark matter annihilations in the Earth with the IceCube detector Aartsen, MG Abraham, K Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Altmann, D Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Archinger, M Argüelles, C Auffenberg, J Axani, S Bai, X Barwick, SW Baum, V Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker Tjus, J Becker, K-H BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Bernhard, A Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Bissok, M Blaufuss, E Blot, S Bohm, C Börner, M Bos, F Bose, D Böser, S Botner, O Braun, J Brayeur, L Bretz, H-P Bron, S Burgman, A Carver, T Casier, M Cheung, E Chirkin, D Christov, A Clark, K Classen, L Coenders, S Collin, GH Conrad, JM Cowen, DF Cross, R Day, M de André, JPAM De Clercq, C del Pino Rosendo, E Dembinski, H De Ridder, S Desiati, P de Vries, KD de Wasseige, G de With, M DeYoung, T Díaz-Vélez, JC di Lorenzo, V Dujmovic, H Dumm, JP Dunkman, M Eberhardt, B Ehrhardt, T Eichmann, B Eller, P Euler, S Evenson, PA Fahey, S Fazely, AR Feintzeig, J Felde, J Filimonov, K Finley, C Flis, S Fösig, C-C Franckowiak, A Friedman, E Fuchs, T Gaisser, TK Gallagher, J Gerhardt, L Ghorbani, K Giang, W Gladstone, L Glagla, M Glauch, T Glüsenkamp, T Goldschmidt, A Golup, G 82 2017-02-01 application/pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5350s08s unknown eScholarship, University of California qt5350s08s https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5350s08s public European Physical Journal C, vol 77, iss 2 Nuclear and Plasma Physics Particle and High Energy Physics Physical Sciences astro-ph.HE Atomic Molecular Nuclear Particle and Plasma Physics Quantum Physics Nuclear & Particles Physics Astronomical sciences molecular and optical physics article 2017 ftcdlib 2023-12-18T19:08:50Z We present the results of the first IceCube search for dark matter annihilation in the center of the Earth. Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), candidates for dark matter, can scatter off nuclei inside the Earth and fall below its escape velocity. Over time the captured WIMPs will be accumulated and may eventually self-annihilate. Among the annihilation products only neutrinos can escape from the center of the Earth. Large-scale neutrino telescopes, such as the cubic kilometer IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the South Pole, can be used to search for such neutrino fluxes. Data from 327days of detector livetime during 2011/2012 were analyzed. No excess beyond the expected background from atmospheric neutrinos was detected. The derived upper limits on the annihilation rate of WIMPs in the Earth and the resulting muon flux are an order of magnitude stronger than the limits of the last analysis performed with data from IceCube’s predecessor AMANDA. The limits can be translated in terms of a spin-independent WIMP–nucleon cross section. For a WIMP mass of 50GeV this analysis results in the most restrictive limits achieved with IceCube data. Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole University of California: eScholarship South Pole |
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Nuclear and Plasma Physics Particle and High Energy Physics Physical Sciences astro-ph.HE Atomic Molecular Nuclear Particle and Plasma Physics Quantum Physics Nuclear & Particles Physics Astronomical sciences molecular and optical physics Aartsen, MG Abraham, K Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Altmann, D Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Archinger, M Argüelles, C Auffenberg, J Axani, S Bai, X Barwick, SW Baum, V Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker Tjus, J Becker, K-H BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Bernhard, A Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Bissok, M Blaufuss, E Blot, S Bohm, C Börner, M Bos, F Bose, D Böser, S Botner, O Braun, J Brayeur, L Bretz, H-P Bron, S Burgman, A Carver, T Casier, M Cheung, E Chirkin, D Christov, A Clark, K Classen, L Coenders, S Collin, GH Conrad, JM Cowen, DF Cross, R Day, M de André, JPAM De Clercq, C del Pino Rosendo, E Dembinski, H De Ridder, S Desiati, P de Vries, KD de Wasseige, G de With, M DeYoung, T Díaz-Vélez, JC di Lorenzo, V Dujmovic, H Dumm, JP Dunkman, M Eberhardt, B Ehrhardt, T Eichmann, B Eller, P Euler, S Evenson, PA Fahey, S Fazely, AR Feintzeig, J Felde, J Filimonov, K Finley, C Flis, S Fösig, C-C Franckowiak, A Friedman, E Fuchs, T Gaisser, TK Gallagher, J Gerhardt, L Ghorbani, K Giang, W Gladstone, L Glagla, M Glauch, T Glüsenkamp, T Goldschmidt, A Golup, G First search for dark matter annihilations in the Earth with the IceCube detector |
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We present the results of the first IceCube search for dark matter annihilation in the center of the Earth. Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), candidates for dark matter, can scatter off nuclei inside the Earth and fall below its escape velocity. Over time the captured WIMPs will be accumulated and may eventually self-annihilate. Among the annihilation products only neutrinos can escape from the center of the Earth. Large-scale neutrino telescopes, such as the cubic kilometer IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the South Pole, can be used to search for such neutrino fluxes. Data from 327days of detector livetime during 2011/2012 were analyzed. No excess beyond the expected background from atmospheric neutrinos was detected. The derived upper limits on the annihilation rate of WIMPs in the Earth and the resulting muon flux are an order of magnitude stronger than the limits of the last analysis performed with data from IceCube’s predecessor AMANDA. The limits can be translated in terms of a spin-independent WIMP–nucleon cross section. For a WIMP mass of 50GeV this analysis results in the most restrictive limits achieved with IceCube data. |
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Aartsen, MG Abraham, K Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Altmann, D Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Archinger, M Argüelles, C Auffenberg, J Axani, S Bai, X Barwick, SW Baum, V Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker Tjus, J Becker, K-H BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Bernhard, A Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Bissok, M Blaufuss, E Blot, S Bohm, C Börner, M Bos, F Bose, D Böser, S Botner, O Braun, J Brayeur, L Bretz, H-P Bron, S Burgman, A Carver, T Casier, M Cheung, E Chirkin, D Christov, A Clark, K Classen, L Coenders, S Collin, GH Conrad, JM Cowen, DF Cross, R Day, M de André, JPAM De Clercq, C del Pino Rosendo, E Dembinski, H De Ridder, S Desiati, P de Vries, KD de Wasseige, G de With, M DeYoung, T Díaz-Vélez, JC di Lorenzo, V Dujmovic, H Dumm, JP Dunkman, M Eberhardt, B Ehrhardt, T Eichmann, B Eller, P Euler, S Evenson, PA Fahey, S Fazely, AR Feintzeig, J Felde, J Filimonov, K Finley, C Flis, S Fösig, C-C Franckowiak, A Friedman, E Fuchs, T Gaisser, TK Gallagher, J Gerhardt, L Ghorbani, K Giang, W Gladstone, L Glagla, M Glauch, T Glüsenkamp, T Goldschmidt, A Golup, G |
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Aartsen, MG Abraham, K Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Altmann, D Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Archinger, M Argüelles, C Auffenberg, J Axani, S Bai, X Barwick, SW Baum, V Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker Tjus, J Becker, K-H BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Bernhard, A Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Bissok, M Blaufuss, E Blot, S Bohm, C Börner, M Bos, F Bose, D Böser, S Botner, O Braun, J Brayeur, L Bretz, H-P Bron, S Burgman, A Carver, T Casier, M Cheung, E Chirkin, D Christov, A Clark, K Classen, L Coenders, S Collin, GH Conrad, JM Cowen, DF Cross, R Day, M de André, JPAM De Clercq, C del Pino Rosendo, E Dembinski, H De Ridder, S Desiati, P de Vries, KD de Wasseige, G de With, M DeYoung, T Díaz-Vélez, JC di Lorenzo, V Dujmovic, H Dumm, JP Dunkman, M Eberhardt, B Ehrhardt, T Eichmann, B Eller, P Euler, S Evenson, PA Fahey, S Fazely, AR Feintzeig, J Felde, J Filimonov, K Finley, C Flis, S Fösig, C-C Franckowiak, A Friedman, E Fuchs, T Gaisser, TK Gallagher, J Gerhardt, L Ghorbani, K Giang, W Gladstone, L Glagla, M Glauch, T Glüsenkamp, T Goldschmidt, A Golup, G |
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First search for dark matter annihilations in the Earth with the IceCube detector |
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First search for dark matter annihilations in the Earth with the IceCube detector |
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First search for dark matter annihilations in the Earth with the IceCube detector |
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First search for dark matter annihilations in the Earth with the IceCube detector |
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First search for dark matter annihilations in the Earth with the IceCube detector |
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first search for dark matter annihilations in the earth with the icecube detector |
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