Robert Stokstad
LBNL

ABSTRACT:
Searches for Dark Matter using IceCube

IceCube and AMANDA are neutrino detectors located at the South Pole. 
IceCube is under construction and should have 70-80 strings of phototubes
operating by 2011. (AMANDA has 19 strings operating since 2000.)  With a
threshold of typically 50-100 GeV, these neutrino telescopes are ideal
for detecting the high energy neutrinos that would be produced by the
annihilation of WIMPs.  These candidates for Dark Matter would be
concentrated in the cores of the Sun and Earth by a combination of energy
loss through scattering and gravitational fields. Their mutual
annihilation there would produce a point source of neutrinos. Searches
for high-energy neutrinos coming from the Earth or Sun with AMANDA (and
other operating neutrino detectors) have produced limits that rule out
some MSSM models.  The limits obtainable with IceCube will be much more
stringent and, for the Sun, may be able to address a MSSM parameter space
not covered by direct detection methods.  More generally these limits
will apply to any Dark Matter candidate whose decay products following
mutual annihilation include neutrinos.