Speaker
Daniel Salazar-Gallegos
(Michigan State University)
Description
Dwarf Spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are suspected dark matter dense astrophysical objects within our galactic neighborhood. They are otherwise low of other high energy neutrino sources which makes them ideal dark matter targets. The previous IceCube dark matter search toward dSphs was performed with an incomplete detector with fewer strings and significantly less data. This iteration will include IceCube's 86 string with data from the Northern Hemisphere. This study is over a dark matter mass range not well explored ranging from hundreds of GeV to 100 PeV in dark matter mass. In the case of no signal, we will set limits on the velocity-weighted cross section.
Primary author
Daniel Salazar-Gallegos
(Michigan State University)
