Search for Dark Matter with the AMANDA and IceCube neutrino detectors

Catherine De Clercq

Search for Dark Matter with the AMANDA and IceCube neutrino detectors

Elementary Particle Physics

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Abstract

If non-baryonic dark matter exists in the form of neutralinos, a neutrino flux is
expected from the decay of neutralino pair annihilation products inside heavy
celestial bodies.
Data taken with the AMANDA neutrino telescope located at the South Pole has been used
in a search for this indirect dark matter signal. Results will be shown from searches
for neutralinos accumulated in the Sun and in the centre of the Earth, using the data
taken up to 2003.
The IceCube neutrino detector is being deployed at the South Pole since 2006. This
cubic kilometer observatory with 80 strings of 60 photomultipliers will be completed
in 2011. The data taken in 2007 with 22 strings has been searched for a neutrino
signal from neutralinos in the Sun. Preliminary results of this analysis will be shown.
The planned IceCube detector will be complemented with a dense inner core, DeepCore,
to improve the sensitivity in the GeV-TeV energy domain. In the talk we will discuss
the expected performance of the combined IceCube-DeepCore detector in relation to
dark matter searches.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Identification of Dark Matter 2008 conference
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2008
Event	Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 21 Sep 2009 → 25 Sep 2009

Conference

Conference	Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition: A Gender Perspective at the Medelhavsmuseet
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	21/09/09 → 25/09/09

Keywords

neutrino astronomy
dark matter

FWOAL413: Study of high energy galactic and extra-galactic netrinos with the IceCube detector embedded in the Antarctic ice near the South Pole.
De Clercq, C.
1/01/07 → 31/12/10
Project: Fundamental
FWOAL192: Study of ultra-high energy galactic and extragalactic neutrinos with the IceCube Cherenkov detector embedded in the Antarctic ice near the South Pole.
Baret, B., Hubert, D., De Clercq, C. & Rizzo, A.
1/01/02 → 31/12/06
Project: Fundamental

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Search for Dark Matter with the AMANDA and IceCube neutrino detectors

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FWOAL413: Study of high energy galactic and extra-galactic netrinos with the IceCube detector embedded in the Antarctic ice near the South Pole.

FWOAL192: Study of ultra-high energy galactic and extragalactic neutrinos with the IceCube Cherenkov detector embedded in the Antarctic ice near the South Pole.

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