Speaker
james pepper
(IceCube)
Description
Most searches for Dark Matter primarily focus on the WIMP paradigm, which predicts dark matter masses in the GeV - 10 TeV range. However, these relatively low energy searches continue to produce null results, possibly suggesting that dark matter is something other than WIMPs. Gravitinos, on the other hand, can satisfy the cosmological constraints on dark matter, and decay with a lifetime orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe, producing extremely high energy neutrinos. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has already had success detecting EHE extragalactic neutrinos, and is well suited to search for dark matter in this high energy regime. I present the status of a search for a gravitino decay signal using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 270 |
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| Collaboration | IceCube |
Primary author
james pepper
(IceCube)
