Multipole analysis of IceCube data to search for dark matter accumulated in the Galactic halo

Abstract

Dark matter which is bound in the Galactic halo might self-annihilate and produce a flux of stable final state particles, e.g. high energy neutrinos. These neutrinos can be detected with IceCube, a cubic-kilometer sized Cherenkov detector. Given IceCube's large field of view, a characteristic anisotropy of the additional neutrino flux is expected. In this paper we describe a multipole method to search for such a large-scale anisotropy in IceCube data. This method uses the expansion coefficients of a multipole expansion of neutrino arrival directions and incorporates signal-specific weights for each expansion coefficient. We apply the technique to a high-purity muon neutrino sample from the Northern Hemisphere. The final result is compatible with the null-hypothesis. As no signal was observed, we present limits on the self-annihilation cross-section averaged over the relative velocity distribution $<\sigma v>$ down to $1.9\cdot 10^{-23}{\mathrm{cm}}^3{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$ for a dark matter particle mass of $700\mathrm{GeV}$ to $1000\mathrm{GeV}$ and direct annihilation into $\nu \bar{\nu }$. The resulting exclusion limits come close to exclusion limits from $\gamma$-ray experiments, that focus on the outer Galactic halo, for high dark matter masses of a few TeV and hard annihilation channels.

arXiv comment17 pages, 18 figures, 5 tables

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