Closing the Window on Strongly Interacting Dark Matter with IceCube

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We use the recent results on dark matter searches of the 22-string IceCube detector to probe the remaining allowed window for strongly interacting dark matter in the mass range 10^4<m_X<10^15 GeV.

• We calculate the expected signal in the 22-string IceCube detector from the annihilation ofsuch particles captured in the Sun and compare it to the detected background.
• As a result, the remaining allowed region in the mass versus cross sectionparameter space is ruled out.
• We also show the expected sensitivity of the complete IceCube detector with 86 strings.