Search for neutrinos from dark matter self-annihilations in the center of the Milky Way with 3 years of IceCube/DeepCore

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作者
Aartsen, M. G. [2 ]
Ackermann, M. [56 ]
Adams, J. [18 ]
Aguilar, J. A. [13 ]
Ahlers, M. [23 ]
Ahrens, M. [47 ,48 ]
Al Samarai, I. [28 ]
Altmann, D. [27 ]
Andeen, K. [36 ]
Anderson, T. [53 ]
Ansseau, I. [13 ]
Anton, G. [27 ]
Arguelles, C. [15 ]
Auffenberg, J. [1 ]
Axani, S. [15 ]
Bagherpour, H. [18 ]
Bai, X. [44 ]
Barron, J. P. [26 ]
Barwick, S. W. [30 ]
Baum, V. [35 ]
Bay, R. [9 ]
Beatty, J. J. [20 ,21 ,22 ]
Tjus, J. Becker [12 ]
Becker, K. -H. [55 ]
BenZvi, S. [46 ]
Berley, D. [19 ]
Bernardini, E. [56 ]
Besson, D. Z. [31 ]
Binder, G. [9 ,10 ]
Bindig, D. [55 ]
Blaufuss, E. [19 ]
Blot, S. [56 ]
Bohm, C. [47 ,48 ]
Borner, M. [24 ]
Bos, F. [12 ]
Bose, D. [50 ]
Boser, S. [35 ]
Botner, O. [54 ]
Bourbeau, J. [33 ,34 ]
Bradascio, F. [56 ]
Braun, J. [33 ,34 ]
Brayeur, L. [14 ]
Brenzke, M. [1 ]
Bretz, H. -P. [56 ]
Bron, S. [28 ]
Burgman, A. [54 ]
Carver, T. [28 ]
Casey, J. [33 ,34 ]
Casier, M. [14 ]
Cheung, E. [19 ]
机构
[1] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Physikal Inst 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[2] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[3] Univ Alaska Anchorage, Dept Phys & Astron, 3211 Providence Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508 USA
[4] Univ Texas Arlington, Dept Phys, 502 Yates St,Sci Hall Rm 108,Box 19059, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
[5] Clark Atlanta Univ, CTSPS, Atlanta, GA 30314 USA
[6] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[7] Georgia Inst Technol, Ctr Relativist Astrophys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[8] Southern Univ, Dept Phys, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[9] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[10] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[11] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
[12] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Fak Phys & Astron, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
[13] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Sci Fac, CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[14] VUB, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[15] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[16] Chiba Univ, Dept Phys, Chiba 2638522, Japan
[17] Chiba Univ, Inst Global Prominent Res, Chiba 2638522, Japan
[18] Univ Canterbury, Dept Phys & Astron, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
[19] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[20] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[21] Ohio State Univ, Ctr Cosmol & Astro Particle Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[22] Ohio State Univ, Dept Astron, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[23] Univ Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
[24] TU Dortmund Univ, Dept Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
[25] Michigan State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[26] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada
[27] Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Erlangen Ctr Astroparticle Phys, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
[28] Univ Geneva, Dept Phys Nucl & Corpusculaire, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[29] Genet Unit, Dept Phys & Astron, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[30] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[31] Univ Kansas, Dept Phys & Astron, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[32] SNOLAB, 1039 Reg Rd 24,Creighton Mine 9, Lively, ON P3Y IN2, Canada
[33] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[34] Univ Wisconsin, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophys Ctr, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[35] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
[36] Marquette Univ, Dept Phys, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[37] Univ Mons, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
[38] Tech Univ Munich, Phys Dept, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[39] Westfal Wilhelms Univ Munster, Inst Kernphys, D-48149 Munster, Germany
[40] Univ Delaware, Bartol Res Inst, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[41] Univ Delaware, Dept Phys & Astron, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[42] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[43] Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[44] South Dakota Sch Mines & Technol, Phys Dept, Rapid City, SD 57701 USA
[45] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, River Falls, WI 54022 USA
[46] Univ Rochester, Dept Phys & Astron, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[47] Stockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[48] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[49] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[50] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Dept Phys, Suwon 440746, South Korea
来源
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2017年 / 77卷 / 09期
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 瑞士国家科学基金会; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 瑞典研究理事会;
关键词
GAMMA-RAYS; PERFORMANCE; SPECTRUM;
D O I
10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5213-y
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
We present a search for a neutrino signal from dark matter self-annihilations in the Milky Way using the Ice-Cube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube). In 1005 days of data we found no significant excess of neutrinos over the background of neutrinos produced in atmospheric air showers from cosmic ray interactions. We derive upper limits on the velocity averaged product of the darkmatter self-annihilation cross section and the relative velocity of the dark matter particles <sigma Av >. Upper limits are set for darkmatter particle candidate masses ranging from 10GeV up to 1TeV while considering annihilation through multiple channels. This work sets the most stringent limit on a neutrino signal from dark matter with mass between 10 and 100GeV, with a limit of 1.18 . 10-23 cm(3)s(-1) for 100GeV dark matter particles self-annihilating via iota(+)iota(-) t-to neutrinos (assuming the Navarro-Frenk-White dark matter halo profile).
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