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

• Published in: The European Physical Journal C
• Main Authors: Aartsen, M. G., Abraham, K., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Altmann, D., Anderson, T., Archinger, M., Arguelles, C., Arlen, T. C., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H, Beiser, E., BenZvi, S., Berghaus, P., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blumenthal, J., Boersma, David J., Bohm, C., Boerner, M., Bos, F., Bose, D., Boeser, S., Botner, Olga, Braun, J., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P, Brown, A. M., Buzinsky, N., Casey, J., Casier, M., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Christy, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Högenergifysik 2015
• Subjects: Fusion; Plasma and Space Physics; plasma och rymdfysik; Subatomic Physics; Subatomär fysik; Canada; Milky Way; Sav’; South Pole; National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs; South pole; Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-274351; 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...