Cascade Events at IceCube+DeepCore as a Definitive Constraint on the Dark Matter Interpretation of the PAMELA and Fermi Anomalies

Mandal, Sourav K.; Buckley, Matthew R.; Freese, Katherine; Spolyar, Douglas; Murayama, Hitoshi

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.81.043508

Cascade Events at IceCube+DeepCore as a Definitive Constraint on the Dark Matter Interpretation of the PAMELA and Fermi Anomalies

Journal Article · Sun Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 2009 · Phys.Rev.D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.043508· OSTI ID:1864225

Mandal, Sourav K. ^[1]; ^[2]; Freese, Katherine ^[3]; Spolyar, Douglas ^[4]; ^[5]

UC, Berkeley; Tokyo U., IPMU
Caltech
Michigan U., MCTP
Fermilab; UC, Santa Cruz
UC, Berkeley; Tokyo U., IPMU; LBL, Berkeley

Dark matter decaying or annihilating into mu+mu- or tau+tau- has been proposed as an explanation for the e+e- anomalies reported by PAMELA and Fermi. Recent analyses show that IceCube, supplemented by DeepCore, will be able to significantly constrain the parameter space of decays to mu+mu-, and rule out decays to tau+tau- and annihilations to mu+mu- in less than five years of running. These analyses rely on measuring track-like events in IceCube+DeepCore from down-going nu_mu. In this paper we show that by instead measuring cascade events, which are induced by all neutrino flavors, IceCube+DeepCore can rule out decays to mu+mu- in only three years of running, and rule out decays to tau+tau- and annihilation to mu+mu- in only one year of running. These constraints are highly robust to the choice of dark matter halo profile and independent of dark matter-nucleon cross-section.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1864225

Report Number(s):: IPMU-09-0143; CALT-68-2757; FERMILAB-PUB-10-738-A; arXiv:0911.5188; oai:inspirehep.net:838228

Journal Information:: Phys.Rev.D, Journal Name: Phys.Rev.D Vol. 81

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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