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Constraining dark matter-neutrino interactions with IceCube-170922A

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-05-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Astrophysical neutrinos travel long distances from their sources to the Earth traversing dark matter halos of clusters of galaxies and that of our own Milky Way. The interaction of neutrinos with dark matter may affect the flux of neutrinos. The recent multi-messenger observation of a high energy neutrino, IceCube-170922A, can give a robust upper bound σ/Mdm5.1×1023cm2/\sigma /M_{dm} \lesssim 5.1\times 10^{-23} {\rm cm}^2 /GeV on the interaction between neutrino and dark matter at a neutrino energy of 290 TeV allowing 90\% suppression. Combining the constraints from CMB and LSS at different neutrino energies, we can constrain models of dark matter-neutrino interactions.

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@article{arxiv.1903.03302,
  title  = {Constraining dark matter-neutrino interactions with IceCube-170922A},
  author = {Ki-Young Choi and Jongkuk Kim and Carsten Rott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.03302},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures, version accepted by PRD

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