Search for neutrino lines from dark matter annihilation and decay with IceCube
Journal article, 2023

Dark matter particles in the Galactic Center and halo can annihilate or decay into a pair of neutrinos producing a monochromatic flux of neutrinos. The spectral feature of this signal is unique and it is not expected from any astrophysical production mechanism. Its observation would constitute a dark matter smoking gun signal. We performed the first dedicated search with a neutrino telescope for such signal, by looking at both the angular and energy information of the neutrino events. To this end, a total of five years of IceCube's DeepCore data has been used to test dark matter masses ranging from 10 GeV to 40 TeV. No significant neutrino excess was found and upper limits on the annihilation cross section, as well as lower limits on the dark matter lifetime, were set. The limits reached are of the order of 10-24 cm3/s for an annihilation and up to 1027 s for decaying dark matter. Using the same data sample we also derive limits for dark matter annihilation or decay into a pair of Standard Model charged particles.

Author

R. Abbasi

Loyola University of Chicago

M. Ackermann

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

J. Adams

University of Canterbury

S. K. Agarwalla

University of Wisconsin Madison

J.A. Aguilar

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

M. Ahlers

Niels Bohr Institute

J. M. Alameddine

Technische Universität Dortmund

N.M. Amin

University of Delaware

K. Andeen

Marquette University

G. Anton

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)

C. Argüelles

Harvard University

Y. Ashida

University of Wisconsin Madison

S. Athanasiadou

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

S. N. Axani

University of Delaware

X. Bai

South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

A. V. Balagopal

University of Wisconsin Madison

M. Baricevic

University of Wisconsin Madison

S.W. Barwick

University of California at Irvine (UCI)

V. Basu

University of Wisconsin Madison

S. Baur

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

R. Bay

University of California

J.J. Beatty

Ohio State University

K.-H. Becker

Bergische Universität Wuppertal

Julia Tjus

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics

J. Beise

Uppsala University

C. Bellenghi

Technical University of Munich

S. Benzvi

University of Rochester

D. Berley

University of Maryland

E. Bernardini

University of Padua

D. Z. Besson

University of Kansas

G. Binder

University of California

D. Bindig

Bergische Universität Wuppertal

E. Blaufuss

University of Maryland

S. Blot

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

F. Bontempo

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

J. Y. Book

Harvard University

C. Boscolo Meneguolo

University of Padua

S. Böser

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

O. Botner

Uppsala University

J. Böttcher

RWTH Aachen University

E. Bourbeau

Niels Bohr Institute

J. Braun

University of Wisconsin Madison

B. Brinson

Georgia Institute of Technology

J. Brostean-Kaiser

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

R. T. Burley

University of Adelaide

R.S. Busse

University of Münster

D. Butterfield

University of Wisconsin Madison

M.A. Campana

Drexel University

K. Carloni

Harvard University

E. G. Carnie-Bronca

University of Adelaide

S. Chattopadhyay

University of Wisconsin Madison

N. Chau

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

C. Chen

Georgia Institute of Technology

Z. Chen

Stony Brook University

D. Chirkin

University of Wisconsin Madison

S. Choi

Sungkyunkwan University

B.A. Clark

University of Maryland

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University of Münster

A. Coleman

Uppsala University

G.H. Collin

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Ohio State University

J.M. Conrad

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

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Columbia University

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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Harvard University

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University of Wisconsin Madison

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

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Universite catholique de Louvain

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Michigan State University

A. Diaz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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University of Wisconsin Madison

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University of Wisconsin Madison

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University of Wisconsin Madison

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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Physical Review D

2470-0010 (ISSN) 2470-0029 (eISSN)

Vol. 108 10 102004

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.108.102004

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