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Directly search for Ultra-High Energy WIMPs at IceCube

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2019-10-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

I study the possibility of directly detecting Ultra-high energy (UHE from now on) WIMPs by the IceCube experiment, via the WIMPs interaction with the nuclei in the ice. I evaluate galactic and extragalactic UHE WIMP and astrophysical and atmospheric neutrino event rates at energy range of 10 TeV - 10 PeV. I assume UHE WIMPs χ\chi are only from the decay of superheavy dark matter ϕ\phi, that is ϕχχˉ\phi\to\chi\bar{\chi}. If the lifetime of superheavy dark matter τϕ\tau_{\phi} is taken to be 5×10215\times10^{21}s, WIMPs can be detected at energies above O(40-100)TeV in this detection. Since UHE WIMP fluxes are actually depended on τϕ\tau_{\phi}, if superheavy dark matter can decay to standard model particles (that is τϕ\tau_{\phi} is constrained to be larger than O(102610^{26}-102910^{29})s), UHE WIMPs could not be detected by IceCube.

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@article{arxiv.1811.09793,
  title  = {Directly search for Ultra-High Energy WIMPs at IceCube},
  author = {Ye Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.09793},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

14 pages,11 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1804.10719