Neutrinos from captured dark matter in galactic stars
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2025-05-13 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
Sub-GeV neutrinos produced in a stellar core may emerge from main sequence stars, white dwarfs and brown dwarfs producing possible observable signals of dark matter capture. A distribution of these stars near the Milky Way galactic center will produce a neutrino flux that can be probed at Earth based neutrino observatories like Super-Kamiokande and Hyper-Kamiokande. We demonstrate that this can provide a handle to probe dark matter masses in the MeV\,\,GeV mass scales that compares favourably with present day direct detection bounds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2405.07894,
title = {Neutrinos from captured dark matter in galactic stars},
author = {Debajit Bose and Rohan Pramanick and Tirtha Sankar Ray},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.07894},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
13 pages, 6 figures; matches published version