| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 207, 2019
Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes (VLVnT-2018)
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| Article Number | 04007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Neutrino Oscillations and Dark Matter Search | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920704007 | |
| Published online | 10 May 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920704007
Combined search for dark matter from the Galactic Centre with the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes
1
IFIC, Instituto de Física Corpuscular, C. José Beltrán Martinez, 2, 46980 Paterna, València, Spain
2
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Boulevard du Triomphe, CP 230, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
* e-mail: sara.gozzini@ific.uv.es
Published online: 10 May 2019
The ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes have independently searched for neutrinos from dark matter pair-annihilation in the Galactic Centre, and placed limits on the velocity-averaged WIMP annihilation crosssection 〈σν〉. To date, the most stringent limits were obtained by the ANTARES neutrino telescope for WIMP masses > 100 GeV/c2, closely followed by the limits of the IceCube experiment for WIMP masses up to 1 TeV/c2. Here we present the sensitivities of a combined search for dark matter in the Galactic Centre using data from both experiments in a WIMP mass range from 100 GeV/c2 to 1 TeV/c2. This analysis includes IceCube data collected with the complete 86-strings detector from 2012 to 2015 and ANTARES data from 2007 to 2015. The two data sets were combined using a common likelihood framework, and before unblinding the combined sensitivities to 〈σν〉 are shown.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2019
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