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Dark matter particles can be gravitationally trapped by celestial bodies, motivating searches for localized annihilation or decay. If neutrinos are among the decay products, then IceCube and other neutrino observatories could detect them.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-02 Matthew Saveliev , Jeffrey Hyde

We propose a new approach to search for light dark matter (DM), with keV-GeV mass, via inelastic nucleus scattering at large-volume neutrino detectors such as Borexino, DUNE, Super-K, Hyper-K, and JUNO. The approach uses inelastic nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-21 Bhaskar Dutta , Wei-Chih Huang , Doojin Kim , Jayden L. Newstead , Jong-Chul Park , Iman Shaukat Ali

The observed dark matter abundance in the Universe can be explained with non-thermal, heavy dark matter models. In order for dark matter to still be present today, its lifetime has to far exceed the age of the Universe. In these scenarios,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-27 Minjin Jeong

Celestial objects such as stars and planets might be able to capture a large amount of dark matter particles through dark matter-nucleon scattering. Many previous studies have considered different celestial objects such as the Sun and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-30 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

It is assumed that dark matter can annihilate or decay into Standard Model particles which then can produce a neutrino flux detectable at IceCube. Such a signal can be emitted from the Galactic Center thanks to the high density of dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-15 Nhan Chau , Juan A. Aguilar

In scenarios where the dark matter interacts differently with protons and neutrons (isospin-violating dark matter), the interpretation of the experimental limits on the dark matter spin-independent cross section may be significantly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-22 Carlos E. Yaguna

The cubic kilometer IceCube neutrino telescope now operating at the South Pole in a near complete configuration observes the neutrino sky with an unprecedented sensitivity to galactic and extra-galactic cosmic ray accelerators. Within the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 M. Ribordy

We investigate the prospects for reconstructing the mass, spin-independent and spin-dependent cross-sections of Dark Matter particles with a combination of future direct detection experiments such as XENON1T, and the IceCube neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-09 Chiara Arina , Gianfranco Bertone , Hamish Silverwood

Direct detection dark matter experiments, lead by the CDMS collaboration, have placed increasingly stronger constraints on the cross sections for elastic scattering of WIMPs on nucleons. These results impact the prospects for the indirect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Francis Halzen , Dan Hooper

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, is a Cherenkov detector that continuously monitors a cubic kilometer of instrumented glacial ice for neutrino interactions in the sub-TeV to EeV energy range. Its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-04 Hans Niederhausen

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a satellite-borne, high-energy particle and $\gamma$-ray detector, which is dedicated to indirectly detecting particle dark matter and studying high-energy astrophysics. The first results about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-16 Qiang Yuan , Lei Feng

Next-generation ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrino telescopes, presently under planning, will have the potential to probe the decay of heavy dark matter (DM) into UHE neutrinos, with energies in excess of $10^7$~GeV. Yet, this potential may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Victor Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Walter Winter

While there is evidence for the existence of dark matter, its properties have yet to be discovered. Simultaneously, the nature of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos detected by IceCube remains unresolved. If dark matter and neutrinos are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-27 Adam McMullen , Aaron Vincent , Carlos Arguelles , Austin Schneider

Dark matter accumulates in the center of the Earth as the planet plows through the dark matter halo in the Milky Way. Possible annihilation of dark matter to Standard Model particles can be probed in indirect dark matter searches. Among…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 Tianyi Ding , Ali Kheirandish , Qinrui Liu

In the past few years, many mesoscale systems have been proposed as possible detectors of sub-GeV dark matter particles. In this work, we point out the feasibility of probing dark matter-nucleon scattering cross section using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-15 Anirban Das , Noah Kurinsky , Rebecca K. Leane

We study the capture and subsequent annihilation of inelastic dark matter (DM) in the Sun, placing constraints on the DM-nucleon scattering cross section from the null result of the IceCube neutrino telescope. We then compare such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Riccardo Catena , Fredrik Hellström

Even though there are strong astrophysical and cosmological indications to support the existence of dark matter, its exact nature remains unknown. We expect dark matter to produce standard model particles when annihilating or decaying,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-24 Nadège Iovine , Juan A. Aguilar

We perform a new dark matter hot spot analysis using ten years of public IceCube data. This analysis assumes dark matter self-annihilates to neutrino pairs and treats the production sites as discrete point sources. As a result, these sites…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-15 Stephan Meighen-Berger , Martina Karl

We present a new search for weakly interacting massive particles utilizing ten years of public IceCube data, setting more stringent bounds than previous IceCube analysis on massive dark matter to neutrino annihilation. We also predict the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-12 Kruteesh Desai , Ruohan Li , Stephan Meighen-Berger

The IceCube experiment discovered PeV-energy neutrinos originating beyond our Galaxy with an energy flux that is comparable to that of TeV-energy gamma rays and EeV-energy cosmic rays. Neutrinos provide the only unobstructed view of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-03 Francis Halzen , Ali Kheirandish