Sensitivity of the IceCube neutrino detector to dark matter annihilating in dwarf galaxies

Pearl Sandick, Douglas Spolyar, Matthew Buckley, Katherine Freese, and Dan Hooper Theory Group and Texas Cosmology Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas 78712, USA Center for Particle Astrophysics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60638, USA (Received 15 December 2009; revised manuscript received 26 February 2010; published 5 April 2010; publisher error corrected 12 April 2010)