Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79 string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry
We present an improved event level likelihood formalism for including neutrino telescope data in global fits to new physics. We derive limits on spin dependent dark matter proton scattering by employing the new formalism in a re analysis of data from the 79 string IceCube search for dark matter annihilation in the Sun, including explicit energy information for each event. The new analysis excludes a number of models in the weak scale minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) for the first time. This work is accompanied by the public release of the 79 string IceCube data, as well as an associated computer code for applying the new likelihood to arbitrary dark matter models.