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Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry

Abstract:
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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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1088/1475-7516/2016/04/022

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
Linacre College
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Publisher:
IOP PUblishing
Journal:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics More from this journal
Volume:
2016
Issue:
04
Pages:
022-022
Publication date:
2016-04-01
Acceptance date:
2016-03-24
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EISSN:
1475-7516


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pubs:618725
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uuid:35128c38-8122-4f29-97d6-54f05af98634
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pubs:618725
Source identifiers:
618725
Deposit date:
2016-12-20

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