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Heavy decaying dark matter at future neutrino radio telescopes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-06-01 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

In the next decades, ultra-high-energy neutrinos in the EeV energy range will be potentially detected by next-generation neutrino telescopes. Although their primary goals are to observe cosmogenic neutrinos and to gain insight into extreme astrophysical environments, they can also indirectly probe the nature of dark matter. In this paper, we study the projected sensitivity of up-coming neutrino radio telescopes, such as RNO-G, GRAND and IceCube-gen2 radio array, to decaying dark matter scenarios. We investigate different dark matter decaying channels and masses, from 10710^7 to 101510^{15} GeV. By assuming the observation of cosmogenic or newborn pulsar neutrinos, we forecast conservative constraints on the lifetime of heavy dark matter particles. We find that these limits are competitive with and highly complementary to previous multi-messenger analyses.

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@article{arxiv.2103.03254,
  title  = {Heavy decaying dark matter at future neutrino radio telescopes},
  author = {Marco Chianese and Damiano F. G. Fiorillo and Rasmi Hajjar and Gennaro Miele and Stefano Morisi and Ninetta Saviano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.03254},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

11 pages, 4 figures. v3: Fig.2 has been fixed, results are unchanged