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Search for dark matter from the center of the Earth with 10 years of IceCube data
The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields, v 85(5), 490
01 May 2025
Abstract
The nature of dark matter remains unresolved in fundamental physics. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), which could explain the nature of dark matter, can be captured by celestial bodies like the Sun or Earth, leading to enhanced self-annihilation into Standard Model particles including neutrinos detectable by neutrino telescopes such as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. This article presents a search for muon neutrinos from the center of the Earth performed with 10 years of IceCube data using a track-like event selection. We considered a number of WIMP annihilation channels (chi chi -> tau(+)tau-/W+W-/b (b) over bar) and masses ranging from 10 GeV to 10 TeV. No significant excess over background due to a dark matter signal was found while the most significant result corresponds to the annihilation channel chi chi -> b (b) over bar for the mass m(chi) = 250 GeV with a post-trial significance of 1.06 sigma. Our results are competitive with previous such searches and direct detection experiments. Our upper limits on the spin-independent WIMP scattering are world-leading among neutrino telescopes for WIMP masses m(chi) > 100 GeV.
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- Search for dark matter from the center of the Earth with 10 years of IceCube data
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- R. Abbasi - Loyola University ChicagoM. Ackermann - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESYJ. Adams - University of CanterburyS. K. Agarwalla - University of Wisconsin–MadisonJ. A. Aguilar - Université Libre de BruxellesM. Ahlers - University of CopenhagenJ. M. Alameddine - TU Dortmund UniversityN. M. Amin - University of DelawareK. Andeen - Marquette UniversityC. Arguelles - Harvard University PressY. Ashida - University of UtahS. Athanasiadou - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESYS. N. Axani - University of DelawareR. Babu - Michigan State UniversityX. Bai - South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyA. Balagopal - MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USAM. Baricevic - University of Wisconsin–MadisonS. W. Barwick - University of California SystemS. Bash - Technical University of MunichV. Basu - University of Wisconsin–MadisonR. Bay - University of California SystemJ. J. Beatty - The Ohio State UniversityJ. Becker Tjus - Chalmers University of TechnologyJ. 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- Publication Details
- The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields, v 85(5), 490
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 14
- Grant note
- Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of Wisconsin Madison USA - U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Programs, U.S. National Science Foundation-Physics Division, U.S. National Science Foundation-EPSCoR, U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, Wisconsin Alumni Research NVIDIA Corporation; Nvidia Corporation Knut and AliceWallenberg Foundation; Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation Swedish Polar Research Secretariat Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) FWO Odysseus and Big Science programmes WestGrid Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); German Research Foundation (DFG) Open Sci-ence Grid (OSG)
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- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001489909800001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105013838061
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- 991022197322204721