5–9 Dec 2022
Australia/Sydney timezone

Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation with IceCube and P-ONE

6 Dec 2022, 14:20
20m
229 (Old Main Building)

229

Old Main Building

Neutrino physics Neutrino physics

Speaker

Dr Stephan Meighen-Berger (The University of Melbourne)

Description

We present a new search for weakly interacting massive particles utilizing neutrino telescopes. We consider galactic and extra-galactic dark matter and perform an analysis on ten years of public IceCube data. In addition, we compare these results to the potential sensitivity of a new neutrino observatory, P-ONE. Assuming extremely heavy dark matter self-annihilates and produces neutrinos indirectly or directly, it would produce unique signatures differening from the typical power-law of the atmospheric and astrophysical background. We use these signatures to show that P-ONE and IceCube can exceed current limits set by gamma-ray experiments, especially when considering extra-galactic dark matter.

Authors

Mr Kruteesh Desai (TU Munich) Ruohan Li (Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich) Dr Stephan Meighen-Berger (The University of Melbourne)

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