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High-energy neutrino signatures of dark matter

Buckley, Matthew R. and Spolyar, Douglas and Freese, Katherine and Hooper, Dan and Murayama, Hitoshi (2010) High-energy neutrino signatures of dark matter. Physical Review D, 81 (1). Art. No. 016006. ISSN 2470-0010. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.81.016006. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20100301-084354448

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Abstract

It has been suggested that the excesses of high-energy cosmic ray electrons and positrons seen by PAMELA and the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope are evidence of dark matter annihilation or decay in the Galactic halo. To accommodate these signals however, the final states must be predominantly muons or taus. These leptonic final states will produce neutrinos, which are potentially detectable with the IceCube neutrino observatory. We find that with five years of data, IceCube (supplemented by DeepCore) can significantly constrain the relevant parameter space for both annihilating or decaying dark matter, and may be capable of discovering leptophilic dark matter in the halo of the Milky Way.


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Additional Information:© 2010 The American Physical Society. Received 4 August 2009; revised manuscript received 20 November 2009; published 13 January 2010. November 2009; published 13 January 2010 We would like to thank A. Aguirre, P. Gondolo, K. Hoffman, S. Profumo, F. Halzen, I. Mocioiu, and especially Spencer Klein for useful discussions. K. F. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and MCTP via the University of Michigan and the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-0455649; D. S. is supported by NSF Grant No. AST-0507117 and GAANN (D. S.); D. H. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, including Grant No. DE-FG02-95ER40896, and by NASA Grant No. NAG5-10842; M. R. B. is supported by the Department of Energy, under Grant No. DE-FG03- 92-ER40701. H. M. is supported in part by World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan, in part by the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098, and in part by the NSF under Grant No. PHY-04-57315. The authors would also like to thank the Aspen Center for Physics for providing a stimulating atmosphere for research and collaboration. D. S. would also like to thank the MCTP.
Group:Caltech Theory
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U.S. Department of EnergyDE-FG0-392-ER40701
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-AC03-76SF00098
MCTP via the University of MichiganUNSPECIFIED
NSFPHY-0455649
NSFAST-0507117
NSFPHY-04-57315
Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)UNSPECIFIED
World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, JapaUNSPECIFIED
Issue or Number:1
Classification Code:PACS numbers: 95.35.+d, 95.85.Ry, 98.70.Sa.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.81.016006
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Deposited By: Tony Diaz
Deposited On:02 Mar 2010 23:14
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