This cartoon explains the idea of the dark matter scattering analysis. The astrophysical high-energy diffuse flux is distorted by interactions with large dark matter column densities. Neutrinos going through the galactic center are more affected, while neutrinos not coming through the center are less affected.

Effects on the energy distribution assuming a fermion dark matter and a vector mediator. The orange-dashed line is the distribution in the direction of the galactic center and the blue one in the opposite direction.

Fermion-Vector model. The axis show the dark matter and mediator mass. The color scale shows the maximum allow coupling. The region signal by the arrow and text "dominated by IceCube" means that in that region the IceCube bounds are the strongest. The region indicated by the arrow and text "dominated by Cosmology" indicate that in that area the cosmological bounds are stronger than the IceCube constraints shown.

Effects on the energy distribution assuming a scalar dark matter and a fermion mediator. The orange-dashed line is the distribution in the direction of the galactic center and the blue one in the opposite direction.

Scalar-Fermion model. The axis show the dark matter and mediator mass. The color scale shows the maximum allow coupling. The region signal by the arrow and text "dominated by IceCube" means that in that region the IceCube bounds are the strongest. The region indicated by the arrow and text "dominated by Cosmology" indicate that in that area the cosmological bounds are stronger than the IceCube constraints shown.