A Search for Neutrinos from Decaying Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters and Galaxies with IceCube

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“…Note that the ν ν final state was not considered in deriving the constraints on the total cross-section of annihilating WIMPs [84]. However, it should also be emphasized that the constraints on this final state coming from the data collected by the neutrino telescopes [59,60,62,63,85] may be stronger than those obtained from the data of other astrophysical observations [42].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For higher DM masses constraints from IceCube observation become relevant. However, we have checked that, for 500 GeV mχ 10 TeV, the IceCube constraints are weaker in comparison to those coming from AMS-02 and Fermi-LAT observations[60][61][62][63] which are already taken into account.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Thus, the data from the antimatter searches performed by CAPRICE [49], HEAT [50], AMS-01 [51], PAMELA [52], AMS-02 [53][54][55] etc., can be used to set upper limits on the DM decay generated antimatter fluxes which in turn give stringent constraints on the parameter space of a decaying DM particle [56][57][58]. In addition, neutrino fluxes induced by the DM decay products are also detectable in several neutrino telescopes and hence, neutrino observations by Super-Kamiokande [59,60], IceCube [60][61][62][63] etc., too, contribute to the existing limits on decaying DM. Multi-messenger analyses using the data taken by several gamma-ray, cosmic-ray and neutrino observations, are also available in the literature [64].…”

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confidence: 99%

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A general study of decaying scalar dark matter: existing limits and projected radio signals at the SKA

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Ghosh²,

Kar³

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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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We consider a decaying scalar dark matter (DM) with mass m χ in the range 10 GeV – 10 TeV and vary the branching ratios of all possible two-body SM final states (excluding and including νν̅) in the range 0%-100% to derive constraints on the total decay width Γ using the data collected by several astrophysical and cosmological observations. We find that, Γ ≲ 10-26 - 10-27 s-1 (excluding νν̅) and Γ ≲ 10-24 - 10-26 s-1 (including νν̅) are allowed, depending on the values of m χ, which are most robust upper limits on Γ for a generic decaying scalar DM. We then investigate the prospect of the upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope in detecting the DM decay induced radio signals originating inside the dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies. We have classified the DM parameter space, allowed by the existing observations, independently of the branching ratio of each individual two-body SM final state, based on the detectability at the SKA. Excluding the νν̅ decay mode, we find that, throughout the DM mass range considered, Γ ≳ 10-30 s-1 - 10-29 s-1 is detectable for all possible branching ratio combinations at the SKA (assuming 100 hours of observation time), with conservative choices for the relevant astrophysical parameters. On the other hand, when arbitrary branching ratios are allowed also for the νν̅ decay mode, DM decays can be probed independently of the branching ratio of each SM final state for Γ ≳ 2 × 10-29 s-1, provided DM masses are greater than a few hundreds of GeV.

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A general study of decaying scalar dark matter: existing limits and projected radio signals at the SKA

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Kar³

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“…Sensitivities on the DM annihilation cross-section, and for DM with masses up to 1 TeV have been presented. Other DM searches with IceCube have been reported in [56,57] , focussing respectively on the GC region and on clusters of galaxies.…”

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Taoso¹

2021

Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021)

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“…Given this observation, heavy dark matter has been proposed as a potential source of the neutrinos in the HESE sample [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] (see Ref.s [38][39][40] for the IceCube analyses). Heavy decaying dark matter also gives rise to gamma-rays [41][42][43] which have been searched with gamma-ray telescopes.…”

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Multi-messenger High-Energy Signatures of Decaying Dark Matter and the Effect of Background Light

Skrzypek¹,

Chianese²,

Delgado³

2022

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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has measured astrophysical neutrinos using through-going and starting events in the TeV to PeV energy range. The origin of these astrophysical neutrinos is still largely unresolved, and among their potential sources could be dark matter decay. Measurements of the astrophysical flux using muon neutrinos are in slight tension with starting event measurements. This tension is driven by an excess observed in the energy range of 40-200 TeV with respect to the through-going expectation. Previous works have considered the possibility that this excess may be due to heavy dark matter decay and have placed constraints using gamma-ray and neutrino data. However, these constraints are not without caveats since they rely on the modeling of the astrophysical neutrino flux and the sources of gamma-ray emission. In this work, we derive backgroundagnostic galactic and extragalactic constraints on decaying dark matter by considering Tibet AS γ data, Fermi-LAT diffuse data, and the IceCube high-energy starting event sample. For the gamma-ray limits, we investigate the uncertainties on secondary emission from electromagnetic cascades during propagation arising from the unknown intensity of the extragalactic background light. We find that such uncertainties amount to a variation of up to ∼ 55% in the gamma-ray limits derived with extragalactic data. Our results imply that a significant fraction of the astrophysical neutrino flux could be due to dark matter and that ruling it out depends on the assumptions on the gamma-ray and neutrino background. The latter depends on the yet unidentified sources.

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A Search for Neutrinos from Decaying Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters and Galaxies with IceCube

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A general study of decaying scalar dark matter: existing limits and projected radio signals at the SKA

A general study of decaying scalar dark matter: existing limits and projected radio signals at the SKA

News on Dark Matter from ICRC 2021

Multi-messenger High-Energy Signatures of Decaying Dark Matter and the Effect of Background Light

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