Constraining Secluded Dark Matter models with the public data from the 79-string IceCube search for dark matter in the Sun

Understand

The 79-string IceCube search for dark matter in the Sun public data is used to test Secluded Dark Matter models.

• No significant excess over background is observed and constraints on the parameters of the models are derived.
• Moreover, the search is also used to constrain the dark photon model in the region of the parameter space with dark photon masses between 0.22 and $\sim$ 1 GeV and a kinetic mixing parameter $\varepsilon \sim 10^{-9}$, which remains unconstrained.
• These are the first constraints of dark photons from neutrino telescopes.