Prof Subir Sarkar: Publications

IceCube

IceCube at Oxford

I am a member since 2004 of the IceCube collaboration which discovered cosmic high energy neutrinos and identified some of their astrophysical sources.

IceCube @ Oxford

Using cosmic neutrinos to search for non-perturbative physics at the Pierre Auger Observatory

(2010)

Authors:

Luis A Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, Dariusz Gora, Thomas Paul, Markus Roth, Subir Sarkar, Lisa Lee Winders

Systematic effects in the extraction of the 'WMAP haze'

ArXiv 1004.3056 (2010)

Authors:

Philipp Mertsch, Subir Sarkar

Abstract:

The extraction of a 'haze' from the WMAP microwave skymaps is based on subtraction of known foregrounds, viz. free-free (bremsstrahlung), thermal dust and synchrotron, each traced by other skymaps. While the 408 MHz all-sky survey is used for the synchrotron template, the WMAP bands are at tens of GHz where the spatial distribution of the radiating cosmic ray electrons ought to be quite different because of the energy-dependence of their diffusion in the Galaxy. The systematic uncertainty this introduces in the residual skymap is comparable to the claimed haze and can, for certain source distributions, have a very similar spectrum and latitudinal profile and even a somewhat similar morphology. Hence caution must be exercised in interpreting the 'haze' as a physical signature of, e.g., dark matter annihilation in the Galactic centre.

Systematic effects in the extraction of the 'WMAP haze'

(2010)

Authors:

Philipp Mertsch, Subir Sarkar

IceCube Collaboration Contributions to the 2009 International Cosmic Ray Conference

ArXiv 1004.2093 (2010)

Authors:

R Abbasi, Y Abdou, T Abu-Zayyad, J Adams, JA Aguilar, M Ahlers, K Andeen, J Auffenberg, X Bai, M Baker, SW Barwick, R Bay, JL Bazo Alba, K Beattie, JJ Beatty, S Bechet, JK Becker, K-H Becker, ML Benabderrahmane, J Berdermann, P Berghaus, D Berley, E Bernardini, D Bertrand, DZ Besson, M Bissok, E Blaufuss, DJ Boersma, C Bohm, J Bolmont, O Botner, L Bradley, J Braun, D Breder, M Carson, T Castermans, D Chirkin, B Christy, J Clem, S Cohen, DF Cowen, MV D'Agostino, M Danninger, CT Day, C De Clercq, L Demiroers, O Depaepe, F Descamps, P Desiati, G de Vries-Uiterweerd, T DeYoung, JC Di-az-Velez, J Dreyer, JP Dumm, MR Duvoort, WR Edwards, R Ehrlich, J Eisch, RW Ellsworth, O Engdegard, S Euler, PA Evenson, O Fadiran, AR Fazely, T Feusels, K Filimonov, C Finley, MM Foerster, BD Fox, A Franckowiak, R Franke, TK Gaisser, J Gallagher, R Ganugapati, L Gerhardt, L Gladstone, A Goldschmidt, JA Goodman, R Gozzini, D Grant, T Griesel, A Gross, S Grullon, RM Gunasingha, M Gurtner, C Ha, A Hallgren, F Halzen, K Han, K Hanson, Y Hasegawa, K Helbing, P Herquet, S Hickford, GC Hill, KD Hoffman, A Homeier, K Hoshina, D Hubert, W Huelsnitz, J-P Hulss, PO Hulth, K Hultqvist, S Hussain, RL Imlay, M Inaba, A Ishihara, J Jacobsen, GS Japaridze, H Johansson, JM Joseph, K-H Kampert, A Kappes, T Karg, A Karle, JL Kelley, N Kemming, P Kenny, J Kiryluk, F Kislat, SR Klein, S Knops, G Kohnen, H Kolanoski, L Koepke, DJ Koskinen, M Kowalski, T Kowarik, M Krasberg, T Krings, G Kroll, K Kuehn, T Kuwabara, M Labare, S Lafebre, K Laihem, H Landsman, R Lauer, R Lehmann, D Lennarz, A Lucke, J Luenemann, J Lundberg, J Madsen, P Majumdar, R Maruyama, K Mase, HS Matis, CP McParland, K Meagher, M Merck, P Meszaros, T Meures, E Middell, N Milke, H Miyamoto, T Montaruli, R Morse, SM Movit, R Nahnhauer, JW Nam, P Niessen, DR Nygren, S Odrowski, A Olivas, M Olivo, M Ono, S Panknin, S Patton, L Paul, C Perez de los Heros, J Petrovic, A Piegsa, D Pieloth, AC Pohl, R Porrata, N Potthoff, PB Price, M Prikockis, GT Przybylski, K Rawlins, P Redl, E Resconi, W Rhode, M Ribordy, A Rizzo, JP Rodrigues, P Roth, F Rothmaier, C Rott, C Roucelle, D Rutledge, B Ruzybayev, D Ryckbosch, H-G Sander, S Sarkar, K Schatto, S Schlenstedt, T Schmidt, D Schneider, A Schukraft, O Schulz, M Schunck, D Seckel, B Semburg, SH Seo, Y Sestayo, S Seunarine, A Silvestri, A Slipak, GM Spiczak, C Spiering, M Stamatikos, T Stanev, G Stephens, T Stezelberger, RG Stokstad, MC Stoufer, S Stoyanov, EA Strahler, T Straszheim, K-H Sulanke, GW Sullivan, Q Swillens, I Taboada, A Tamburro, O Tarasova, A Tepe, S Ter-Antonyan, C Terranova, S Tilav, PA Toale, J Tooker, D Tosi, D Turcan, N van Eijndhoven, J Vandenbroucke, A Van Overloop, J van Santen, B Voigt, C Walck, T Waldenmaier, M Wallraff, M Walter, C Wendt, S Westerhoff, N Whitehorn, K Wiebe, CH Wiebusch, A Wiedemann, G Wikstrom, DR Williams, R Wischnewski, H Wissing, K Woschnagg, C Xu, XW Xu, G Yodh, S Yoshida

Abstract:

IceCube Collaboration Contributions to the 2009 International Cosmic Ray Conference

Limits on a muon flux from Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilations in the Sun from the IceCube 22-string detector

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 81:5 (2010)

Authors:

R Abbasi, Y Abdou, T Abu-Zayyad, J Adams, JA Aguilar, M Ahlers, K Andeen, J Auffenberg, X Bai, M Baker, SW Barwick, R Bay, JL Bazo Alba, K Beattie, JJ Beatty, S Bechet, JK Becker, KH Becker, ML Benabderrahmane, J Berdermann, P Berghaus, D Berley, E Bernardini, D Bertrand, DZ Besson, M Bissok, E Blaufuss, DJ Boersma, C Bohm, J Bolmont, O Botner, L Bradley, J Braun, D Breder, M Carson, T Castermans, D Chirkin, B Christy, J Clem, S Cohen, DF Cowen, MV D'Agostino, M Danninger, CT Day, C De Clercq, L Demirörs, O Depaepe, F Descamps, P Desiati, G De Vries-Uiterweerd, T Deyoung, JC Díaz-Vélez, J Dreyer, JP Dumm, MR Duvoort, WR Edwards, R Ehrlich, J Eisch, RW Ellsworth, O Engdegård, S Euler, PA Evenson, O Fadiran, AR Fazely, T Feusels, K Filimonov, C Finley, MM Foerster, BD Fox, A Franckowiak, R Franke, TK Gaisser, J Gallagher, R Ganugapati, L Gerhardt, L Gladstone, A Goldschmidt, JA Goodman, R Gozzini, D Grant, T Griesel, A Groß, S Grullon, RM Gunasingha, M Gurtner, C Ha, A Hallgren, F Halzen, K Han, K Hanson, Y Hasegawa, K Helbing, P Herquet, S Hickford, GC Hill, KD Hoffman, A Homeier, K Hoshina, D Hubert, W Huelsnitz

Abstract:

A search for muon neutrinos from Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the 22-string configuration of the IceCube neutrino detector using data collected in 104.3 days of live time in 2007. No excess over the expected atmospheric background has been observed. Upper limits have been obtained on the annihilation rate of captured lightest Kaluza-Klein particle (LKP) WIMPs in the Sun and converted to limits on the LKP-proton cross sections for LKP masses in the range 250-3000 GeV. These results are the most stringent limits to date on LKP annihilation in the Sun. © 2010 The American Physical Society.

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