Speaker
Marcel Zoll
(Stockholm Universitet)
Description
Gravitationally captured Dark Matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) can annihilate into standard-model particles, such as neutrinos. The IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole is an excellent instrument to search for such a neutrino signal from the Sun. We present an alternative analysis approach which improves on previous ones, in background-dominated regions in particular. Newly developed techniques based on hit clustering and hit-based vetos allow a more accurate reconstruction and identification of events in the detector and thereby a stronger rejection of background. These techniques are applicable also to other IceCube analyses and event filters.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 895 |
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| Collaboration | IceCube |
Primary author
Marcel Zoll
(Stockholm Universitet)
