Speaker
Mr
Samuel Flis
(Stockholms Universitet)
Description
The cubic-kilometer sized IceCube neutrino observatory, constructed in the glacial ice
at the South
Pole, offers new opportunities for neutrino physics to reach lower neutrino energies
with its in-fill array
“DeepCore”. A set of analysis techniques where the outer layers of IceCube are used
as a veto makes it
possible to reject atmospheric muons and thereby allows low-energy neutrino
searches to be performed above the horizon.
With these techniques the Galactic Center, an important target in searches for self-
annihilating
dark matter, becomes reachable for IceCube. In this contribution we present the
status of the Galactic
Center dark matter analysis, using more than 10 months of data taken with the 79-
string configuration of
IceCube-DeepCore, as well as the new veto techniques used in the analysis.
Author
Mr
Samuel Flis
(Stockholms Universitet)
