Directly search for Ultra-High Energy WIMPs at IceCube
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 are only from the decay of superheavy dark matter , that is . If the lifetime of superheavy dark matter is taken to be s, WIMPs can be detected at energies above O(40-100)TeV in this detection. Since UHE WIMP fluxes are actually depended on , if superheavy dark matter can decay to standard model particles (that is is constrained to be larger than O(-)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