Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with Neutrinos
Dr. Carsten Rott (Columbus, USA)

Neutrino telescopes offer exciting opportunities for indirect searches for dark matter and have a high discovery potential through striking signatures. Very competitive constraints on the dark matter self-annihilation cross section and scattering cross section with nucleons have been obtained through observations of the Milky Way and the Sun, respectively. The talk will review on-going searches with a particular focus on Super-Kamiokande and IceCube. The relation of neutrino results to those obtained with other messenger particles will be discussed. Prospects for observing dark matter signals at current and next generation neutrino detectors will be evaluated. The talk will conclude by introducing a novel detection channel and discussing methodologies to improve sensitivities in future searches, such as the use of spectral and neutrino flavor information.