Search for Dark Matter from the Galactic Halo with IceCube

Understand

Neutrinos produced in dark matter self-annihilations in the Galactic halo might be detectable by IceCube.

• We present a search for such a signal using the IceCube detector in the 22-string configuration.
• We first evaluate the sensitivity before presenting the result based on the collected data.
• We find that even with the partially instrumented detector and a small dataset, we are able to meaningfully constrain the dark matter self-annihilation cross-section.