Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry
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 anni...
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| author | Aartsen, M Abraham, K Ackermann, M Sarkar, S al., E |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:35128c38-8122-4f29-97d6-54f05af986342022-03-26T13:29:56ZImproved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetryJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:35128c38-8122-4f29-97d6-54f05af98634Symplectic Elements at OxfordIOP PUblishing2016Aartsen, MAbraham, KAckermann, MSarkar, Sal., EWe 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. |
| spellingShingle | Aartsen, M Abraham, K Ackermann, M Sarkar, S al., E Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry |
| title | Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry |
| title_full | Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry |
| title_fullStr | Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry |
| title_short | Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry |
| title_sort | improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the sun with the 79 string icecube detector and implications for supersymmetry |
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