2012

Use of event-level neutrino telescope data in global fits for theories of new physics

Scott, P., Savage, C., Edsjö, J. et al.

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We present a fast likelihood method for including event-level neutrino telescope data in parameter explorations of theories for new physics, and announce its public release as part of DarkSUSY 5.0.6.

Our construction includes both angular and spectral information about neutrino events, as well as their total number.
We also present a corresponding measure for simple model exclusion, which can be used for single models without reference to the rest of a parameter space.
We perform a number of supersymmetric parameter scans with IceCube data to illustrate the utility of the method: example global fits and a signal recovery in the constrained minimal supersymmetric standard model (CMSSM), and a model exclusion exercise in a 7-parameter phenomenological version of the MSSM.

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