A search for solar dark matter with the IceCube neutrino detector : Advances in data treatment and analysis technique

• Main Author: Zoll, Marcel Christian Robert
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Stockholms universitet, Fysikum 2016
• Subjects: neutrino; WIMP; dark matter; cluster analysis; sun; IceCube; IC86; Astronomy; Astrophysics and Cosmology; Astronomi; astrofysik och kosmologi; South Pole; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-125341

There is compelling observational evidence for the existence of dark matter in the Universe, including our own Galaxy, which could possibly consist of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) not contained in the standard model (SM) of particle physics. WIMPs may get gravitationally trapped insi...