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Searching for dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the IceCube Upgrade

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Pith's one-line read The paper predicts that the IceCube Upgrade will beat current direct detection limits on dark matter scattering in the Sun.

desk verdict A transparent and honest projection that the IceCube Upgrade will lead the field on spin-dependent solar WIMPs, though the detector model is hand-built and the real reach may shift by a factor of a few. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.06734 v2 pith:IQRDVFAK submitted 2025-05-10 hep-ph astro-ph.COastro-ph.HE

Dan Hooper , Fabrizio Vassallo This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords darkmattersolarneutrinosIceCubeUpgradespin-dependentscatteringannihilationdirectdetectioncomparisonsimplifiedmodelsthermalrelicabundance
topics Dark Matter
open problems Dark Matter
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

The paper argues that the IceCube Upgrade, a low-energy extension of the IceCube neutrino telescope, will be able to detect neutrinos from dark matter annihilating in the Sun if the dark matter scatters with nuclei through unsuppressed spin-dependent couplings. If dark matter annihilates mainly to tau leptons or to neutrinos, the Upgrade's projected sensitivity would beat the best direct detection limits from LZ and PICO for masses around 5 to 1700 GeV (tau channel) or 4 to 600 GeV (neutrino channel). The paper then identifies two concrete dark matter models—an axial-vector mediator and a scalar-pseudoscalar colored mediator—that could produce such a signal while evading direct detection, collider, and cosmic microwave background constraints.

What carries the argument

The argument runs on the solar capture-annihilation equilibrium: dark matter particles are captured by elastic scattering in the Sun, thermalize in the core, and annihilate to Standard Model particles, including neutrinos and tau leptons that decay to neutrinos. The paper's detector model uses a muon effective area of 22,000 square meters, an effective depth equal to 60 meters plus the muon range, a 4 GeV muon threshold, and a 25-degree angular window containing 590.8 atmospheric background events per year. On the particle physics side, the key restriction is that only spin-dependent elastic scattering that is not suppressed at low velocities can give a large capture rate without violating direct detection bounds, and the paper shows that only two interaction structures satisfy this: t-channel axial-vector exchange and s-channel scalar-pseudoscalar exchange.

What would settle it

If a full Monte Carlo simulation of the IceCube Upgrade yields a low-energy muon effective area substantially below 22,000 square meters or an atmospheric background rate significantly above 590.8 events per year within a 25-degree window, the claimed sensitivity would not beat LZ and PICO; alternatively, a detected excess of neutrinos from the Sun in the predicted mass range would confirm the scenario.

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Core claim

The central claim is that the IceCube Upgrade will provide the most stringent constraints on the spin-dependent dark matter-proton scattering cross section for dark matter masses between roughly 5 and 1700 GeV when the dark matter annihilates to tau leptons, and between roughly 4 and 600 GeV when it annihilates directly to neutrinos, after ten years of observation. This conclusion follows from computing the solar capture rate, the annihilation flux of neutrinos, and the rate of neutrino-induced muon tracks in the Upgrade. The paper also shows that such a signal can arise in particle physics models with a fermionic dark matter candidate exchanging an axial-vector mediator, or a Majorana dark matter candidate exchanging a scalar-pseudoscalar colored mediator, while remaining consistent with existing constraints.

Load-bearing premise

The projected sensitivity relies on a hand-picked detector model—22,000 square meters effective area, a 4 GeV muon threshold, and a fixed atmospheric background estimate—rather than a full Monte Carlo simulation of the IceCube Upgrade.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Ten years of IceCube Upgrade data would constrain the spin-dependent dark matter-proton cross section below current LZ and PICO limits for tau-lepton annihilation in the 5 to 1700 GeV mass range.
  • A null result would exclude the thermally produced dark matter parameter space of the two simplified models for masses above about 300 to 400 GeV, where the required couplings overshoot the thermal relic abundance.
  • A positive signal would show that dark matter is captured in the Sun, establishing a non-gravitational interaction between dark matter and ordinary nuclei.
  • Because the projected sensitivity covers masses down to a few GeV, the Upgrade would complement direct detectors, which are strongest at higher masses, and probe the low-mass spin-dependent window more effectively.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the adopted detector parameters are optimistic, the real sensitivity could be weaker; a direct Monte Carlo simulation of the Upgrade will decide whether the claimed LZ/PICO-beating reach survives.
  • The same capture mechanism implies that existing IceCube DeepCore data, with lower statistics but similar physics, could already be reanalyzed with low-energy reconstruction to place intermediate limits before the Upgrade is fully operational.
  • The identification of only two viable interaction structures suggests a sharp model-selection test: if a solar neutrino signal is seen, the measured energy spectrum could distinguish between annihilations to tau pairs and to neutrinos, since their neutrino spectra differ.
  • The result also frames a target for future direct detection: if the Upgrade sees nothing, it tightens the case that spin-dependent scattering must be weaker than roughly 10^-41 square centimeters for sub-TeV dark matter.
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Summary. This paper estimates the sensitivity of the IceCube Upgrade to neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the Sun, using a capture-and-annihilation forward model, a simplified detector model, and a cut-and-count background treatment. For spin-dependent dark matter-proton scattering, it projects that after 10 years the IceCube Upgrade will beat the current LZ and PICO limits for dark matter masses of roughly 5-1700 GeV (annihilation to tau pairs) and 4-600 GeV (annihilation directly to neutrinos). The paper then identifies two simplified model classes that could produce detectable solar neutrino fluxes while evading direct detection, CMB, and LHC constraints: a fermionic dark matter candidate with an axial-vector Z' mediator, and a Majorana fermion with a colored scalar-pseudoscalar mediator. The central result is a sensitivity projection, with the model section serving as a target-identification exercise.

Significance. If the projected sensitivity is realized, this is a valuable and timely result: it quantifies the science reach of the IceCube Upgrade for one of its key dark matter channels and identifies concrete, testable simplified models. The rate calculation is transparent and uses largely standard formalism, with the authors explicitly not assuming capture-annihilation equilibrium, including evaporation, and accounting for neutrino oscillations and solar absorption. The model section is also conscientious about CMB and LHC constraints, and it correctly emphasizes that only spin-dependent, unsuppressed scattering can produce a detectable solar signal without violating direct detection limits. The main caveat is that the central projection relies on detector parameters that are adopted by hand rather than derived from a simulation; the paper itself states that a Collaboration Monte Carlo study should supersede these estimates. The model scan is deliberately tuned to the projected sensitivity curve, which is appropriate for identifying targets but does not independently validate the projection.

major comments (2)
  1. [Sec. III, Eq. (10), Fig. 2] The headline claim—that after 10 years the IceCube Upgrade will provide the most stringent spin-dependent proton cross-section limits for m_chi ~ 5-1700 GeV (tau+tau-) and ~4-600 GeV (nu nu-bar)—is computed from a detector model with hand-adopted parameters: A_mu,eff = 22,000 m^2, D_mu = 60 m + R_mu, a 4 GeV muon threshold, and a 25-degree angular search window. The paper gives no detector simulation, no energy-dependent effective area, and no uncertainty estimate for these parameters. Because the signal rate in Eq. (10) scales linearly with A_mu,eff and D_mu, even a factor-of-two or three overestimate of the true low-energy effective area would shift the projected sigma_SD curves by a corresponding factor, shrinking or erasing the claimed advantage over LZ and PICO in Fig. 2. The end of Sec. III states that the IceCube Collaboration's future Monte Carlo study 'should be taken to supersede' the estimates, which is exactly the validation that is missing here. This issue is load-bearing for the central claim and must be addressed, either by replacing the hand-adopted numbers with simulation-derived values or by reframing the paper as a parametric sensitivity model with curves shown as functions of A_mu,eff and D_mu.
  2. [Sec. III, background and significance calculation] The projected sensitivity is based on a fixed atmospheric-neutrino background of 590.8 events per year within a 25-degree cone around the Sun, combined with a simple 2-sigma cut-and-count threshold of Gamma_mu > 15.4 yr^-1. This treatment ignores the energy spectra of signal and background, the angular distribution, the detector point-spread function, and the possible contamination from atmospheric muons. At the few-GeV energies most relevant for the low-mass reach, these effects can be substantial, and they could either improve or degrade the true sensitivity. A binned likelihood or an analysis that incorporates spectral information would give a more robust estimate. The authors should either implement a more realistic background model or explicitly present the projection as a rough count-based estimate that neglects energy and directional information.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Abstract and Sec. V] The abstract and conclusions use categorical language such as 'will provide unprecedented sensitivity' and 'will be capable of testing parameter space,' which is too strong given the explicit caveat in Sec. III that a Collaboration Monte Carlo study should supersede these estimates. Recommend phrasing such as 'is projected to' throughout.
  2. [Sec. IV A] The discussion of LHC constraints on the axial Z' model mentions di-electron and di-muon resonance searches but does not mention di-tau resonance searches, which are directly relevant because the model requires g_tau >> g_e, g_mu. Adding this constraint would make the model section more complete.
  3. [Sec. II, Eq. (9)] The oscillation prefactors of 1/3 and 1/2, and the exponential solar-absorption factors, are stated without derivation; a brief explanation or an explicit reference for these approximations would help the reader reproduce the flux calculation.
  4. [General] There are a few typographical and notational inconsistencies, including 'Ma ter' in the Sec. II heading, 'Super-Kamokande' in Fig. 3, and the somewhat confusing statement that the detector width and height are 80 m and 275 m while the 'physical depth' is later quoted as 80 m. These should be cleaned up.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the sensitivity projection is a forward model with unvalidated but non-circular detector assumptions, and the model scan is an externally constrained viability study.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is self-contained and forward-directed. Solar capture, annihilation equilibrium, and neutrino/muon rates are computed from standard cross-section and flux inputs (Eqs. 2-10), then compared with external constraints from LZ, PICO, CMB, and LHC. The projected IceCube Upgrade sensitivity rests on hand-adopted detector parameters (A_mu,eff = 22,000 m^2, D_mu = 60 m + R_mu, a 4 GeV threshold, and 590.8 atmospheric events/yr in a 25-degree window), but these are assumptions about the detector, not quantities fitted to the claimed signal; the paper explicitly states that a future IceCube Collaboration Monte Carlo study should supersede these estimates. The model section sets couplings so that the spin-dependent cross section equals the projected sensitivity curve, so stating that such models 'could produce a flux within projected reach' is true by construction; however, the nontrivial content is the independent computation of relic abundance, CMB constraints, and collider bounds for those parameter choices. The only notable same-author citation, Ref. [79], is an external operator census whose assumptions do not include the IceCube reach and is therefore independent support rather than a load-bearing self-citation. No equation or prediction in the paper reduces to its own input by definition.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 7 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper's central sensitivity and model-viability results rest on the adopted halo model, the neglect of evaporation above 3 GeV, the completeness of the Ref. [79] operator census, the simplified neutrino propagation and atmospheric background, and the standard thermal relic and CMB assumptions. No new entities are invented; the Z' and A_Q mediators are taken from prior simplified model literature.

free parameters (3)
  • Detector effective area A_mu,eff = 22,000 m^2
    Adopted by hand in Sec. III for the Upgrade's effective dimensions; the projected signal rate scales linearly with this number.
  • Effective detector depth parameters = 60 m + R_mu(E_mu) with a 4 GeV muon threshold
    Chosen in Sec. III without uncertainty or simulation validation; the muon range formula is taken from Ref. [69].
  • Angular search window radius = 25 degrees
    The background rate of 590.8 events per year and the resulting 2-sigma sensitivity depend on this fixed analysis choice.
assumptions (7)
  • domain assumption Local dark matter halo parameters: Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution with dispersion 270 km/s, boost 220 km/s, and density 0.4 GeV/cm^3.
    Used to set the capture rate in Eqs. (2)-(4); taken from standard halo references [59,60], not measured in this paper.
  • domain assumption Evaporation is negligible for m_chi greater than about 3 GeV, with the evaporation rate given by Eq. (6) from Refs. [46,47].
    This justifies dropping the evaporation term for the mass range of interest in the solar capture calculation.
  • domain assumption The operator census of Ref. [79] is complete for unsuppressed spin-dependent dark matter-nucleon interactions; only the axial-vector and scalar-pseudoscalar mediator classes need be considered.
    Sec. IV builds the model survey on this list; one author of [79] is also an author here, but the census is an external operator classification.
  • domain assumption Neutrino flavor oscillations are represented by fixed factors 1/3 and 1/2 with MSW effects, and solar absorption by exp(-E/E_abs) with E_abs = 130 GeV for neutrinos and 200 GeV for antineutrinos.
    Sec. II uses this approximate neutrino propagation model; tau regeneration is not included.
  • domain assumption Atmospheric neutrino background is taken from the Super-K flux [70], giving 590.8 events per year in a 25-degree cone around the Sun.
    Sec. III uses this single number to set the 2-sigma sensitivity; the true IceCube Upgrade background depends on the detector acceptance.
  • domain assumption Thermal relic abundance is fixed to Omega h^2 = 0.12 and standard freeze-out cosmology applies.
    Sec. IV requires candidate models to match the measured dark matter density via thermal freeze-out.
  • domain assumption CMB constraints on energy injection are taken from ACT+Planck with the f_eff parametrization at z ~ 600 from Refs. [80,81].
    Used to set lower mass bounds in Fig. 4 and to constrain s-wave annihilation in the axial model.

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The IceCube Upgrade will provide unprecedented sensitivity to dark matter particles annihilating in the core of the Sun. For dark matter candidates with spin-dependent couplings to nuclei and that annihilate significantly to tau leptons or neutrinos, we find that the IceCube Upgrade will be capable of testing parameter space that is beyond the reach of existing direct detection experiments. After calculating the sensitivity of the IceCube Upgrade to dark matter annihilation in the Sun, we explore dark matter models that could be tested by this experiment, identifying two classes of scenarios as promising targets for such searches.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. The projected sensitivity of the IceCube Upgrade to dark matter particles annihilating in the Sun after 10 years of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. The projected sensitivity of the IceCube Upgrade to dark matter particles annihilating in the Sun after 10 years of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. A comparison of the projected sensitivity of the IceCube Upgrade (after 10 years of observation) to neutrinos from dark [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. The value of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Left frame: The value of thermal relic abundance that is obtained in the axial model, considering only couplings to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. The value of thermal relic abundance that we obtain in the scalar-pseudoscalar model, for the case of a 2 TeV mediator [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png]

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