Heavy Dark Matter Annihilation search with IceCube tracks

Icecube Collaboration

doi:10.22323/1.501.0523

Heavy Dark Matter Annihilation search with IceCube tracks

Icecube Collaboration

Department of Physics

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Dwarf Spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are suspected dark matter dense astrophysical objects within our galactic neighborhood. DSphs are otherwise faint high-energy neutrino sources which makes them ideal dark matter targets. An early IceCube dark matter search toward dSphs was performed with an incomplete detector with 59 strings and 339.8 days of live time. This updated analysis is performed on IceCube’s full 86 strings with 10.4 years of data from the Northern Hemisphere. We study a dark matter mass range not well explored ranging from hundreds of GeV to 100 PeV in dark matter mass. We present the current IceCube sensitivity and preliminary limits on the velocity-weighted cross-section of annihilating dark matter. We report that our data is consistent with the neutrino background.

Original language	English
Article number	523
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	501
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22323/1.501.0523
State	Published - 30 Dec 2025
Event	39th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2025 - Geneva, Switzerland Duration: 15 Jul 2025 → 24 Jul 2025

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Heavy Dark Matter Annihilation search with IceCube tracks

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