Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 88, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.122001
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- U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Programs
- U.S. National Science Foundation-Physics Division
- University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Grid Laboratory Of Wisconsin (GLOW) grid infrastructure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Open Science Grid (OSG) grid infrastructure
- U. S. Department of Energy
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
- Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) grid computing resources
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, WestGrid
- Compute/Calcul Canada
- Swedish Research Council
- Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
- Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC)
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden
- German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP)
- Research Department of Plasmas with Complex Interactions (Bochum), Germany
- Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-FWO)
- FWO Odysseus programme
- Flanders Institute to encourage scientific and technological research in industry (IWT)
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo)
- University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Marsden Fund, New Zealand
- Australian Research Council
- Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J000507/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/J000507/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1307472] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1205403, 1205796, 1210052] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics [1307472] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present the results of a first search for self-annihilating dark matter in nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters using a sample of high-energy neutrinos acquired in 339.8 days of live time during 2009/10 with the IceCube neutrino observatory in its 59-string configuration. The targets of interest include the Virgo and Coma galaxy clusters, the Andromeda galaxy, and several dwarf galaxies. We obtain upper limits on the cross section as a function of the weakly interacting massive particle mass between 300 GeV and 100 TeV for the annihilation into b (b) over bar, W+(W) over bar (-), tau(+)tau(-), mu(+)mu(-) , and nu(nu) over bar. A limit derived for the Virgo cluster, when assuming a large effect from subhalos, challenges the weakly interacting massive particle interpretation of a recently observed GeV positron excess in cosmic rays.
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