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we built a km 3 neutrino detector  3 challenges: drilling optics of ice atmospheric muons

we built a km 3 neutrino detector  3 challenges: drilling optics of ice atmospheric muons atmospheric neutrino spectrum atmospheric muon spectrum: first surprise search for the sources of the Galactic cosmic rays search for the extragalactic cosmic rays gamma ray bursts

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we built a km 3 neutrino detector  3 challenges: drilling optics of ice atmospheric muons

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  1. we built a km3 neutrino detector  3 challenges: • drilling • optics of ice • atmospheric muons • atmospheric neutrino spectrum • atmospheric muon spectrum: first surprise • search for the sources of the Galactic cosmic rays • search for the extragalactic cosmic rays • gamma ray bursts • GZK neutrinos • a multi-wavelength story • search for dark matter IceCube.wisc.edu

  2. WIMP search strategies • Direct detection • Indirect detection:– neutrinos from the Earth/Sun– antiprotons from the galactic halo– positrons from the galactic halo– gamma rays from the galactic halo– gamma rays from external galaxies/halos– synchrotron radiation from the galactic center / galaxy clusters– ...

  3. WIMP + nucleus WIMP + nucleus • Measure the nuclear recoil energy • Suppress backgrounds • Search for an annual modulation due to the Earth’s motion around the Sun direct detection - general principles c c c c c December June

  4. present limits

  5. DAMA result (> 8 sigma)

  6. rc velocity distribution c n interactions sscatt n int. m int. nm Gcapture Gannihilation m neutralino capture and annihilation sun Freese, ’86; Krauss, Srednicki &Wilczek, ’86 Gaisser, Steigman & Tilav, ’86 Silk, Olive and Srednicki, ’85Gaisser, Steigman & Tilav, ’86

  7. supersymmetry on the back of an envelope arXiv 9404252

  8. c WIMP Capture and Annihilation n nm DETECTOR c + c W + W  n + n

  9. indirect detection for cyclists e.g.n-telescope searches for 500 GeV WIMP 300 km/s > LHC limit 1.  - flux 2. solar cross section

  10. Nsun = capture rate = annihilation rate 250 GeV 500 GeV mnm 3. Capture rate by the sun 4. Number of muon-neutrinos 0.1is the leptonic branching ratio

  11. # events = 60 per year

  12. update: focus region

  13. neutrino rate versus WIMP masswhite line: 100 events km-2 yr-1

  14. IC22

  15. solar neutrino ratevs wimp mass0—1 TeV100 events km-2 yr-1

  16. capture • equilibrium neutrino flux wimp-nucleon cross section indirect detection of dark matter

  17. atmospheric neutrino events the sun

  18. sensitivity to wimps withspin-independent interactions

  19. <103 SI limit >103 SI limit arXiv:0906.1615

  20. arXiv:0906.1615

  21. neutrinos from the center of the Galaxy

  22. conclusions • supersymmetry comes in 2 flavors: • spin-independent ( favors direct detection • because of A2 ) and spin-dependent • IceCube is competitive for spin-dependent • can probe most of the interesting parameter • space of the MSSM • [astrophysics is known ( no toothfairies )]

  23. IceCube: multiwavelength analysis • IceCube • supernova explosions (millisecond alert) • a story from AMANDA days • TeV gamma ray observations • GRB IceCube takes data continuously and records and archives them

  24. supernova burst: light from  PMT noise low (280 Hz)  detect correlated rate increase on top of PMT noise when supernova neutrinos pass through the detector

  25. Simulation Data Kitaura, Janka, Hillebrandt (Astron. Astrophys. 450 (2006) 345) Garching first 20 msec deleptonization • Luminosities

  26. starting points of neutrino showers • equivalent detection volume • of a 2.5 megaton SuperK-style • detector • 1 million events from 10 kpc • time of neutronization to a few • milliseconds

  27. signal depends on • properties of the supernova collapse • unknown neutrino physics

  28. Kamioka II 1987A

  29. Super-K SNO coincidence server @ BNL alert LVD AMANDA (IceCube) Participation in SNEWS …several hours advanced notice to astronomers … IceCube will follow this year http://snews.bnl.gov astro-ph/0406214

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