Closing the Window on Strongly Interacting Dark Matter with IceCube
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2014-11-20 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We use the recent results on dark matter searches of the 22-string IceCube detector to probe the remaining allowed window for strongly interacting dark matter in the mass range 10^4<m_X<10^15 GeV. We calculate the expected signal in the 22-string IceCube detector from the annihilation ofsuch particles captured in the Sun and compare it to the detected background. As a result, the remaining allowed region in the mass versus cross sectionparameter space is ruled out. We also show the expected sensitivity of the complete IceCube detector with 86 strings.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1001.1381,
title = {Closing the Window on Strongly Interacting Dark Matter with IceCube},
author = {Ivone F. M. Albuquerque and Carlos Pérez de los Heros},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.1381},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
5 pages, 7 figures. Uppdated figures 2 and 3 (y-axis normalization and label) . Version accepted for publication in PRD