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Hadronically decaying heavy dark matter and high-energy neutrino limits

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2017-05-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider dark matter consisting of long--living particles with masses 107  M  101610^{7}~\lesssim~M~\lesssim~10^{16} GeV decaying through hadronic channel as a source of high energy neutrino. Using recent data on high energy neutrino from IceCube and Pierre Auger experiments we derive the upper-limits on neutrino flux from dark matter decay and constraints on dark matter parameter space. For the dark matter masses of order 10810^8 GeV the constraints derived are slightly stronger than those obtained for the same dark matter model using the high energy gamma-ray limits.

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@article{arxiv.1611.08684,
  title  = {Hadronically decaying heavy dark matter and high-energy neutrino limits},
  author = {M. Yu. Kuznetsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.08684},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

12 pages, 5 figures, minor corrections in text, results unchanged, published in JETP Letters