Search for dark matter annihilation in the Galactic Center with IceCube-79

• Published in: The European Physical Journal C
• Main Authors: Aartsen, M., Abraham, K., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Altmann, D., Anderson, T., Archinger, M., Arguelles, C., Arlen, T., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Barwick, S., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J., Becker Tjus, J., Becker, K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2015
• Subjects: Milky Way; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/101061; https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3713-1

The Milky Way is expected to be embedded in a halo of dark matter particles, with the highest density in the central region, and decreasing density with the halo-centric radius. Dark matter might be indirectly detectable at Earth through a flux of stable particles generated in dark matter annihilati...