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.
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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
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
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RWTH Aachen University
E. Bourbeau
Niels Bohr Institute
J. Braun
University of Wisconsin Madison
B. Brinson
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
R. T. Burley
University of Adelaide
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University of Münster
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Drexel University
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Harvard University
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Stony Brook University
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University of Wisconsin Madison
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Sungkyunkwan University
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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
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Physical Review D
2470-0010 (ISSN) 2470-0029 (eISSN)
Vol. 108 10 102004Subject Categories
Subatomic Physics
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.108.102004