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We present a search for neutrinos from the Sun using IceCube IC86 data, targeting two complementary physics goals. The primary objective is to constrain dark matter annihilation in the solar core, where gravitationally captured WIMPs accumulate and annihilate into Standard Model particles, producing neutrinos detectable by IceCube. The secondary objective is the detection of solar atmospheric neutrinos, produced by cosmic-ray interactions in the solar atmosphere, which serve as both an irreducible background to the dark matter search and a signal of independent interest. We introduce a novel machine-learning-based event selection and present initial sensitivities across multiple WIMP annihilation channels and mass ranges, as well as to the solar atmospheric neutrino flux.
