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Limits on Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilation in the Sun from recent IceCube results

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-02-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We interpret recent IceCube results on searches for dark matter accumulated in the sun in terms of the lightest Kaluza-Klein excitation (assumed here to be the Kaluza-Klein photon, B1B^1), obtaining improved limits on the annihilation rate in the Sun, the resulting neutrino flux at the Earth and on the B1B^1-proton cross-sections, for B1B^1 masses in the range 30--3000 GeV. These results improve previous results from IceCube in its 22-string configuration by up to an order of magnitude, depending on mass, but also extend the results to B1B^1 masses as low as 30 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.1912.04585,
  title  = {Limits on Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilation in the Sun from recent IceCube results},
  author = {M. Colom i Bernadich and C. Pérez de los Heros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.04585},
  year   = {2020}
}