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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Physics and Astronomy INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES DENSITY-FUNCTION CAPTURE PERFORMANCE CONSTRAINTS CANDIDATES GENERATOR AMANDA LIMITS HALO |
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Physics and Astronomy INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES DENSITY-FUNCTION CAPTURE PERFORMANCE CONSTRAINTS CANDIDATES GENERATOR AMANDA LIMITS HALO 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 Arguelles, 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 Boerner, M Bos, F Bose, D Boeser, 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 Andre, JPAM De Clercq, C del Pino Rosendo, E Dembinski, H De Ridder, Sam Desiati, P de Vries, KD de Wasseige, G de With, M DeYoung, T Diaz-Velez, 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 Foesig, C-C Franckowiak, A Friedman, E Fuchs, T Gaisser, TK Gallagher, J Gerhardt, L Ghorbani, K Giang, W Gladstone, L Glagla, M Glauch, T Glsenkamp, T Goldschmidt, A Golup, G Gonzalez, JG Grant, D Griffith, Z Haack, C Haj Ismail, Abd Al Karim Hallgren, A Halzen, F Hansen, E Hansmann, B Hansmann, T Hanson, K Hebecker, D Heereman, D Helbing, K Hellauer, R Hickford, S Hignight, J Hill, GC Hoffman, K.D Hoffmann, R Holzapfel, K Hoshina, K Huang, F Huber, M Hultqvist, K In, S Ishihara, A Jacobi, E Japaridze, GS Jeong, M Jero, K Jones, BJP Jurkovic, M Kappes, A Karg, T Karle, A Katz, U Kauer, M Keivani, A Kelley, JL Kemp, J Kheirandish, A Kim, M Kintscher, T Kiryluk, J Kittler, T Klein, SR Kohnen, G Koirala, R Kolanoski, H Konietz, R Kopke, L Kopper, C Kopper, S Koskinen, DJ Kowalski, M Krings, K Kroll, M Krueckl, G Krueger, C Kunnen, J Kunwar, S Kurahashi, N Kuwabara, T Labare, Mathieu Lanfranchi, JL Larson, MJ Lauber, F Lennarz, D Lesiak-Bzdak, M Leuermann, M Leuner, J Lu, L Lunemann, J Madsen, J Maggi, G Mahn, KBM Mancina, S Mandelartz, M Maruyama, R Mase, K Maunu, R McNally, F Meagher, K Medici, M Meier, M Meli, Athina Menne, T Merino, G Meures, T Miarecki, S Mohrmann, L Montaruli, T Moulai, M Nahnhauer, R Naumann, U Neer, G Niederhausen, H Nowicki, SC Nygren, DR Obertacke Pollmann, A Olivas, A. O'Murchadha, A Palczewski, T Pandya, H Pankova, DV Peiffer, P Penek, O Pepper, JA Perez de los Heros, C Pieloth, D Pinat, E Price, PB Przybylski, GT Quinnan, M Raab, C Raedel, L Rameez, M Rawlins, K Reimann, R Relethford, B Relich, M Resconi, E Rhode, W Richman, M Riedel, B Robertson, S Rongen, M Rott, C Ruhe, T Ryckbosch, Dirk Rysewyk, D Sabbatini, L Sanchez Herrera, SE Sandrock, A Sandroos, J Sarkar, S Satalecka, K Schimp, M Schlunder, P Schmidt, T Schoenen, S Schoeneberg, S Schumacher, L Seckel, D Seunarine, S Soldin, D Song, M Spiczak, GM Spiering, C Stahlberg, M Stanev, T Stasik, A Stettner, J Steuer, A Stezelberger, T Stokstad, RG Stoessl, A Stroem, R Strotjohann, NL Sullivan, GW Sutherland, M Taavola, H Taboada, I Tatar, J Tenholt, F Ter-Antonyan, S Terliuk, A Tesic, G Tilav, S Toale, PA Tobin, MN Toscano, S Tosi, D Tselengidou, M Turcati, A Unger, E Usner, M Vandenbroucke, J van Eijndhoven, N Vanheule, Sander van Rossem, M van Santen, J Veenkamp, J Vehring, M Voge, M Vogel, E Vraeghe, Matthias Walck, C Wallace, A Wallraff, M Wandkowsky, N Weaver, Ch Weiss, MJ Wendt, C Westerhoff, S Whelan, BJ Wickmann, S Wiebe, K Wiebusch, CH Wille, L Williams, DR Wills, L Wolf, M Wood, TR Woolsey, E Woschnagg, K Xu, DL Xu, XW Xu, Y Yanez, JP Yodh, G Yoshida, S Zoll, M 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 327 days 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 (Gamma(A) = 1.12 x 10(14) s(-1) for WIMP masses of 50 GeV annihilating into tau leptons) 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 Arguelles, 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 Boerner, M Bos, F Bose, D Boeser, 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 Andre, JPAM De Clercq, C del Pino Rosendo, E Dembinski, H De Ridder, Sam Desiati, P de Vries, KD de Wasseige, G de With, M DeYoung, T Diaz-Velez, 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 Foesig, C-C Franckowiak, A Friedman, E Fuchs, T Gaisser, TK Gallagher, J Gerhardt, L Ghorbani, K Giang, W Gladstone, L Glagla, M Glauch, T Glsenkamp, T Goldschmidt, A Golup, G Gonzalez, JG Grant, D Griffith, Z Haack, C Haj Ismail, Abd Al Karim Hallgren, A Halzen, F Hansen, E Hansmann, B Hansmann, T Hanson, K Hebecker, D Heereman, D Helbing, K Hellauer, R Hickford, S Hignight, J Hill, GC Hoffman, K.D Hoffmann, R Holzapfel, K Hoshina, K Huang, F Huber, M Hultqvist, K In, S Ishihara, A Jacobi, E Japaridze, GS Jeong, M Jero, K Jones, BJP Jurkovic, M Kappes, A Karg, T Karle, A Katz, U Kauer, M Keivani, A Kelley, JL Kemp, J Kheirandish, A Kim, M Kintscher, T Kiryluk, J Kittler, T Klein, SR Kohnen, G Koirala, R Kolanoski, H Konietz, R Kopke, L Kopper, C Kopper, S Koskinen, DJ Kowalski, M Krings, K Kroll, M Krueckl, G Krueger, C Kunnen, J Kunwar, S Kurahashi, N Kuwabara, T Labare, Mathieu Lanfranchi, JL Larson, MJ Lauber, F Lennarz, D Lesiak-Bzdak, M Leuermann, M Leuner, J Lu, L Lunemann, J Madsen, J Maggi, G Mahn, KBM Mancina, S Mandelartz, M Maruyama, R Mase, K Maunu, R McNally, F Meagher, K Medici, M Meier, M Meli, Athina Menne, T Merino, G Meures, T Miarecki, S Mohrmann, L Montaruli, T Moulai, M Nahnhauer, R Naumann, U Neer, G Niederhausen, H Nowicki, SC Nygren, DR Obertacke Pollmann, A Olivas, A. O'Murchadha, A Palczewski, T Pandya, H Pankova, DV Peiffer, P Penek, O Pepper, JA Perez de los Heros, C Pieloth, D Pinat, E Price, PB Przybylski, GT Quinnan, M Raab, C Raedel, L Rameez, M Rawlins, K Reimann, R Relethford, B Relich, M Resconi, E Rhode, W Richman, M Riedel, B Robertson, S Rongen, M Rott, C Ruhe, T Ryckbosch, Dirk Rysewyk, D Sabbatini, L Sanchez Herrera, SE Sandrock, A Sandroos, J Sarkar, S Satalecka, K Schimp, M Schlunder, P Schmidt, T Schoenen, S Schoeneberg, S Schumacher, L Seckel, D Seunarine, S Soldin, D Song, M Spiczak, GM Spiering, C Stahlberg, M Stanev, T Stasik, A Stettner, J Steuer, A Stezelberger, T Stokstad, RG Stoessl, A Stroem, R Strotjohann, NL Sullivan, GW Sutherland, M Taavola, H Taboada, I Tatar, J Tenholt, F Ter-Antonyan, S Terliuk, A Tesic, G Tilav, S Toale, PA Tobin, MN Toscano, S Tosi, D Tselengidou, M Turcati, A Unger, E Usner, M Vandenbroucke, J van Eijndhoven, N Vanheule, Sander van Rossem, M van Santen, J Veenkamp, J Vehring, M Voge, M Vogel, E Vraeghe, Matthias Walck, C Wallace, A Wallraff, M Wandkowsky, N Weaver, Ch Weiss, MJ Wendt, C Westerhoff, S Whelan, BJ Wickmann, S Wiebe, K Wiebusch, CH Wille, L Williams, DR Wills, L Wolf, M Wood, TR Woolsey, E Woschnagg, K Xu, DL Xu, XW Xu, Y Yanez, JP Yodh, G Yoshida, S Zoll, M |
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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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ftunivgent:oai:archive.ugent.be:8565632 2023-06-11T04:16:48+02:00 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 Arguelles, 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 Boerner, M Bos, F Bose, D Boeser, 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 Andre, JPAM De Clercq, C del Pino Rosendo, E Dembinski, H De Ridder, Sam Desiati, P de Vries, KD de Wasseige, G de With, M DeYoung, T Diaz-Velez, 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 Foesig, C-C Franckowiak, A Friedman, E Fuchs, T Gaisser, TK Gallagher, J Gerhardt, L Ghorbani, K Giang, W Gladstone, L Glagla, M Glauch, T Glsenkamp, T Goldschmidt, A Golup, G Gonzalez, JG Grant, D Griffith, Z Haack, C Haj Ismail, Abd Al Karim Hallgren, A Halzen, F Hansen, E Hansmann, B Hansmann, T Hanson, K Hebecker, D Heereman, D Helbing, K Hellauer, R Hickford, S Hignight, J Hill, GC Hoffman, K.D Hoffmann, R Holzapfel, K Hoshina, K Huang, F Huber, M Hultqvist, K In, S Ishihara, A Jacobi, E Japaridze, GS Jeong, M Jero, K Jones, BJP Jurkovic, M Kappes, A Karg, T Karle, A Katz, U Kauer, M Keivani, A Kelley, JL Kemp, J Kheirandish, A Kim, M Kintscher, T Kiryluk, J Kittler, T Klein, SR Kohnen, G Koirala, R Kolanoski, H Konietz, R Kopke, L Kopper, C Kopper, S Koskinen, DJ Kowalski, M Krings, K Kroll, M Krueckl, G Krueger, C Kunnen, J Kunwar, S Kurahashi, N Kuwabara, T Labare, Mathieu Lanfranchi, JL Larson, MJ Lauber, F Lennarz, D Lesiak-Bzdak, M Leuermann, M Leuner, J Lu, L Lunemann, J Madsen, J Maggi, G Mahn, KBM Mancina, S Mandelartz, M Maruyama, R Mase, K Maunu, R McNally, F Meagher, K Medici, M Meier, M Meli, Athina Menne, T Merino, G Meures, T Miarecki, S Mohrmann, L Montaruli, T Moulai, M Nahnhauer, R Naumann, U Neer, G Niederhausen, H Nowicki, SC Nygren, DR Obertacke Pollmann, A Olivas, A. O'Murchadha, A Palczewski, T Pandya, H Pankova, DV Peiffer, P Penek, O Pepper, JA Perez de los Heros, C Pieloth, D Pinat, E Price, PB Przybylski, GT Quinnan, M Raab, C Raedel, L Rameez, M Rawlins, K Reimann, R Relethford, B Relich, M Resconi, E Rhode, W Richman, M Riedel, B Robertson, S Rongen, M Rott, C Ruhe, T Ryckbosch, Dirk Rysewyk, D Sabbatini, L Sanchez Herrera, SE Sandrock, A Sandroos, J Sarkar, S Satalecka, K Schimp, M Schlunder, P Schmidt, T Schoenen, S Schoeneberg, S Schumacher, L Seckel, D Seunarine, S Soldin, D Song, M Spiczak, GM Spiering, C Stahlberg, M Stanev, T Stasik, A Stettner, J Steuer, A Stezelberger, T Stokstad, RG Stoessl, A Stroem, R Strotjohann, NL Sullivan, GW Sutherland, M Taavola, H Taboada, I Tatar, J Tenholt, F Ter-Antonyan, S Terliuk, A Tesic, G Tilav, S Toale, PA Tobin, MN Toscano, S Tosi, D Tselengidou, M Turcati, A Unger, E Usner, M Vandenbroucke, J van Eijndhoven, N Vanheule, Sander van Rossem, M van Santen, J Veenkamp, J Vehring, M Voge, M Vogel, E Vraeghe, Matthias Walck, C Wallace, A Wallraff, M Wandkowsky, N Weaver, Ch Weiss, MJ Wendt, C Westerhoff, S Whelan, BJ Wickmann, S Wiebe, K Wiebusch, CH Wille, L Williams, DR Wills, L Wolf, M Wood, TR Woolsey, E Woschnagg, K Xu, DL Xu, XW Xu, Y Yanez, JP Yodh, G Yoshida, S Zoll, M 2017 application/pdf https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8565632 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8565632 https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4582-y https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8565632/file/8565634 eng eng https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8565632 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8565632 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4582-y https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8565632/file/8565634 No license (in copyright) info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C ISSN: 1434-6044 ISSN: 1434-6052 Physics and Astronomy INTERACTING MASSIVE PARTICLES DENSITY-FUNCTION CAPTURE PERFORMANCE CONSTRAINTS CANDIDATES GENERATOR AMANDA LIMITS HALO journalArticle info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftunivgent https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4582-y 2023-05-10T22:43:43Z 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 327 days 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 (Gamma(A) = 1.12 x 10(14) s(-1) for WIMP masses of 50 GeV annihilating into tau leptons) 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 Ghent University Academic Bibliography South Pole The European Physical Journal C 77 2 |