Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry
By I. C. M. Aartsen, K. Abraham, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, D. Altmann, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau and 307 more. 2016
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We present an improved event-level likelihood formalism for including neutrino telescope data in global fits to new physics. We derive limits on spin-dependent dark matter-proton scattering by employing the new formalism in a re-analysis of data from the 79-string IceCube search for dark matter annihilation in the Sun, including explicit energy information for each event. The new analysis excludes a number of models in the weak-scale minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) for the first time. This work is accompanied by the public release of the 79-string IceCube data, as well as an associated computer code for applying the new likelihood to arbitrary dark matter models.
Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Recommendations on presenting LHC searches for missing transverse energy signals using simplified s-channel models of dark matter (2016, methodology): “For mDM > mt , the dominant annihilation channel is to t t̄ and the resulting constraints from IceCube are stronger than DD experiments.”
- Search for Dijet Resonances in Proton–proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV and Constraints on Dark Matter and Other Models (2017, result): “(top) The CMS exclusion of a spin-dependent cross section (shaded) from an axial-vector mediator decaying to dijets is compared with limits from the PICO experiments [56,57], IceCube [58], and SuperKamiokande [59].”
- DarkSUSY 6: an advanced tool to compute dark matter properties numerically (2018, methodology): “org, but let us point out in particular dedicated code to compute the Sommerfeld effect in the MSSM [34] as well as detailed likelihoods for neutrino signals from the IceCube experiment [35, 36].”