Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-05-28
Phys. Rev. D 85, 023529 (2012)
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
19 pages, 5 figures; match the published version
Scientific paper
The deployment of DeepCore array significantly lowers IceCube's energy threshold to about 10 GeV and enhances the sensitivity of detecting neutrinos from annihilations and decays of light dark matter. To match this experimental development, we calculate the track event rate in DeepCore array due to neutrino flux produced by annihilations and decays of galactic dark matter. We also calculate the background event rate due to atmospheric neutrino flux for evaluating the sensitivity of DeepCore array to galactic dark matter signatures. Unlike previous approaches, which set the energy threshold for track events at around 50 GeV (this choice avoids the necessity of including oscillation effect in the estimation of atmospheric background event rate), we have set the energy threshold at 10 GeV to take the full advantage of DeepCore array. We compare our calculated sensitivity with those obtained by setting the threshold energy at 50 GeV. We conclude that our proposed threshold energy significantly improves the sensitivity of DeepCore array to the dark matter signature for $m_{\chi}< 100$ GeV in the annihilation scenario and $m_{\chi}<300$ GeV in the decay scenario.
Lee Fei-Fan
Lin Guey-Lin
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