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Measurement of high energy dark matter from the Sun at IceCube

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-12-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

It is assumed that heavy dark matter particles (HDMs) with a mass of O(TeV) are captured by the Sun. HDMs can decay to relativistic light dark matter particles (LDMs), which could be measured by km3^3 neutrino telescopes (like the IceCube detector). The numbers and fluxes of expected LDMs and neutrinos were evaluated at IceCube with the ZZ^{\prime} portal dark matter model. Based on the assumption that no events are observed at IceCube in 6 years, the corresponding upper limits on LDM fluxes were calculated at 90\% C. L.. These results indicated that LDMs could be directly detected in the O(1TeV)-O(10TeV) energy range at IceCube with 100 GeV mZ\lesssim m_{Z^{\prime}} \lesssim 350 GeV and τϕ5×1022\tau_{\phi} \lesssim 5\times10^{22} s.

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@article{arxiv.2106.02202,
  title  = {Measurement of high energy dark matter from the Sun at IceCube},
  author = {Ye Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.02202},
  year   = {2021}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures