Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-08-06
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
6 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
In models with one universal extra dimension (UED), the first Kaluza-Klein excitations of the hypercharge gauge boson, B^(1), and the neutral component of isospin gauge boson, W^3(1), are each viable dark matter candidates. In either case, such particles are predicted to accumulate in the core of the Sun, where they annihilate to generate a potentially observable flux of high energy neutrinos. In this article, we calculate the flux of neutrinos produced in this model and determine the constraints that can be placed on the UED parameter space from current IceCube data. For the case of B^(1) dark matter, we find that the present limits from IceCube are stronger than those from direct dark matter detection experiments such as CDMS and XENON10. For W^3(1) dark matter, the present IceCube data provides a constraint slightly weaker than direct detection experiments. In addition, we also present the projected regions of UED parameter space that can be probed by IceCube/DeepCore in the near future and compare them to the prospects for future direct detection experiments.
Flacke Thomas
Freese Katherine
Hooper Dan
Menon Arjun
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