18–24 Jun 2017
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
US/Pacific timezone

Indirect dark matter searches in IceCube

21 Jun 2017, 12:20
20m
Pacific Ballroom AB (UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA)

Pacific Ballroom AB

UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

Working Group Sessions Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology Working Group Working Group: Astroparticle physics and cosmology

Speaker

Morten Medici (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

Description

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory searches for a neutrino signal from dark matter self-annihilations in the sun, the earth, and the galactic halo. The signal neutrinos are identified as events with reconstructed energies and arrival directions that correspond to the distribution expected in dark matter self-annihilations. The latest results from IceCube will be presented with focus on the recent updates of the search from the center of the Milky Way. Two new analyses have been carried out that are sensitive to different energy scales and together cover an energy range from 10 GeV to 300 TeV in dark matter particle mass. Sensitivities as well as experimental exclusion limits will be presented for both analyses.

Primary author

Morten Medici (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

Presentation materials