Search for neutrinos from decaying dark matter with IceCube

With the observation of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, interest has risen in models of PeV-mass decaying dark matter particles to explain the observed flux. We present two dedicated experimental analyses to test this hypothesis. One analysis uses 6 years of...

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Main Authors: Aartsen, M. G, Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A, Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Samarai, I. A, Altmann, D., Andeen, K., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Anton, G., Auffenberg, J., Backes, P., Bagherpour, H., Bai, X., Barron, J. P, Barwick, S. W, Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J, Becker Tjus, J., Becker, K.-H., BenZvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Besson, D. Z, Binder, G., Bindig, D., Blaufuss, E., Blot, S., Bohm, C., Börner, M., Bos, F., Böser, S., Botner, O., Bourbeau, E., Bourbeau, J., Bradascio, F., Braun, J., Brenzke, M., Bretz, H.-P., Bron, S., Brostean-Kaiser, J., Burgman, A., Busse, R. S, Carver, T., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Clark, K., Classen, L., Coppin, P., Correa, P., Cowen, D. F, Cross, R., Dave, P., Day, M., de André, J. P A M, De Clercq, C., DeLaunay, J. J, Dembinski, H., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D, de Wasseige, G., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Díaz-Vélez, J. C, di Lorenzo, V., Dujmovic, H., Dumm, J. P, Dunkman, M., Dvorak, E., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eichmann, B., Eller, P., Evenson, P. A, Fahey, S., Fazely, A. R, Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Flis, S., Franckowiak, A., Friedman, E., Fritz, A., Gaisser, T. K, Gallagher, J., Ganster, E., Gerhardt, L., Ghorbani, K., Giang, W., Glauch, T., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Gonzalez, J. G, Grant, D., Griffith, Z., Haack, C., Hallgren, A., Halve, L., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C, Hoffman, K. D, Hoffmann, R., Hoinka, T., Hokanson-Fasig, B., Hoshina, K., Huang, F., Huber, M., Hultqvist, K., Hünnefeld, M., Hussain, R., In, S., Iovine, N., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Japaridze, G. S, Jeong, M., Jero, K., Jones, B. J P, Kalaczynski, P., Kang, W., Kappes, A., Kappesser, D., Karg, T., Karle, A., Katz, U., Kauer, M., Keivani, A., Kelley, J. L, Kheirandish, A., Kim, J., Kim, M., Kintscher, T., Kiryluk, J., Kittler, T., Klein, S. R, Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koschinsky, J. P, Koskinen, D. J, Kowalski, M., Krings, K., Kroll, M., Krückl, G., Kunwar, S., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Kyriacou, A., Labare, M., Lanfranchi, J. L, Larson, M. J, Lauber, F., Leonard, K., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Liu, Q. R, Lohfink, E., Mariscal, C. J L, Lu, L., Lünemann, J., Luszczak, W., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Mahn, K. B M, Mancina, S., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Maunu, R., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Meier, M., Menne, T., Merino, G., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Micallef, J., Momenté, G., Montaruli, T., Moore, R. W, Nahnhauer, R., Nakarmi, P., Naumann, U., Neer, G., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C, Nygren, D. R, Obertacke Pollmann, A., Olivas, A., O’Murchadha, A., O’Sullivan, E., Palczewski, T., Pandya, H., Pankova, D. V, Peiffer, P., Pepper, J. A, Pérez de los Heros, C., Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Plum, M., Price, P. B, Przybylski, G. T, Raab, C., Rädel, L., Rameez, M., Rauch, L., Rawlins, K., Rea, I. C, Reimann, R., Relethford, B., Relich, M., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Robertson, S., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ryckbosch, D., Rysewyk, D., Safa, I., Sanchez Herrera, S. E, Sandrock, A., Sandroos, J., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Satalecka, K., Schaufel, M., Schlunder, P., Schmidt, T., Schneider, A., Schoenen, S., Schöneberg, S., Schumacher, L., Sclafani, S., Seckel, D., Seunarine, S., Soedingrekso, J., Soldin, D., Song, M., Spiczak, G. M, Spiering, C., Stachurska, J., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stein, R., Stettner, J., Steuer, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G, Stößl, A., Strotjohann, N. L, Stuttard, T., Sullivan, G. W, Sutherland, M., Taboada, I., Tatar, J., Tenholt, F., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A, Tobin, M. N, Tönnis, C., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Tselengidou, M., Tung, C. F, Turcati, A., Turley, C. F, Ty, B., Unger, E., Usner, M., Vandenbroucke, J., Van Driessche, W., van Eijk, D., van Eijndhoven, N., Vanheule, S., van Santen, J., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Wallace, A., Wallraff, M., Wandler, F. D, Wandkowsky, N., Waza, A., Weaver, C., Weiss, M. J, Wendt, C., Werthebach, J., Westerhoff, S., Whelan, B. J, Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H, Wille, L., Williams, D. R, Wills, L., Wolf, M., Wood, J., Wood, T. R, Woolsey, E., Woschnagg, K., Wrede, G., Xu, D. L, Xu, X. W, Xu, Y., Yanez, J. P, Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Yuan, T., IceCube Collaboration, Arguelles Delgado, Carlos A, Axani, Spencer Nicholas, Collin, G. H., Conrad, Janet Marie, Moulai, Marjon H.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118985
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