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Decaying dark matter has previously been proposed as a possible explanation for the excess high energy cosmic ray electrons and positrons seen by PAMELA and the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (FGST). To accommodate these signals however,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-06 Matthew R. Buckley , Katherine Freese , Dan Hooper , Douglas Spolyar , Hitoshi Murayama

Direct detection of light dark matter can be significantly enhanced by up-scattering of dark matter with energetic particles in the cosmic ambient. This boosted dark matter flux can reach kinetic energies up to tens of MeV, while the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-18 Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Tushar Gupta , Matti Heikinheimo , Katri Huitu , Sk Jeesun

Dark Matter (DM) comprising particles in the mass range of a few MeV to GeV is waiting to be explored, given the many theoretical models accommodating cosmological abundance. We hereby propose an experiment with the LHC proton beam of 7 TeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-04 Ashok Kumar , Archana Sharma

Dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments have been setting strong limits on the DM-nucleon scattering cross section at the DM mass above a few GeV, but leave large parameter space unexplored in the low mass region. DM is likely to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-22 Zhan-Hong Lei , Jian Tang , Bing-Long Zhang

With the discovery of a high-energy neutrino flux in the 0.1 PeV to PeV range from beyond the Earth's atmosphere with the IceCube detector, neutrino astronomy has achieved a major breakthrough in the exploration of the high-energy universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Kappes

Neutrinos produced in dark matter self-annihilations in the Galactic halo might be detectable by IceCube. We present a search for such a signal using the IceCube detector in the 22-string configuration. We first evaluate the sensitivity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Carsten Rott

We employ data from the recently observed high-energy neutrino events at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory to constrain interactions between the dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way and the neutrino sector. We construct an extended un-binned…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-28 Carlos Argüelles , Ali Kheirandish , Aaron C. Vincent

The nature of Dark Matter (DM) remains one of the most important unresolved questions of fundamental physics. Many models, including Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), assume DM to be a particle and predict a weak coupling with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-26 Giovanni Renzi

Large neutrino detectors like IceCube monitor for core-collapse supernovae using low energy (MeV) neutrinos, with a reach to a supernova neutrino burst to the Magellanic Cloud. However, some models predict the emission of high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-30 Nora Valtonen-Mattila , Erin O'Sullivan

The first detection of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube provides new opportunities for tests of neutrino properties. The long baseline through the Cosmic Neutrino Background (C$\nu$B) is particularly useful for directly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-04 Kenny C. Y. Ng , John F. Beacom

IceCube is a kilometer scale high-energy neutrino observatory, currently under construction at the South Pole. It is a photo-detector, using the deep Antarctic ice as detection medium for the Cherenkov photons induced by relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Hagar Landsman

We investigate the potential of a future kilometer-scale neutrino telescope such as the proposed IceCube detector in the South Pole, to measure and disentangle the yet unknown components of the cosmic neutrino flux, the prompt atmospheric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 D. Hooper , H. Nunokawa , O. L. G. Peres , R. Zukanovich Funchal

Late time decay of very heavy dark matter is considered as one of the possible explanations for diffuse PeV neutrinos observed in IceCube. We consider implications of multimessenger constraints, and show that proposed models are marginally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-16 Kohta Murase , Ranjan Laha , Shin'ichiro Ando , Markus Ahlers

Dark matter could decay into Standard Model particles producing neutrinos directly or indirectly. The resulting flux of neutrinos from these decays could be detectable at neutrino telescopes and would be associated with massive celestial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-10 Minjin Jeong , Carsten Rott

Dark matter (DM) annihilations in the Galaxy may produce high energy neutrinos, which can be detected by the neutrino telescopes, for example IceCube, ANTARES and Super-Kamiokande. The neutrinos can also arise from hadronic interaction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peng-fei Yin , Jia Liu , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-jun Bi , Shou-hua Zhu

We revisit the prospects for IceCube and similar kilometer-scale telescopes to detect neutrinos produced by the annihilation of weakly interacting massive dark matter particles (WIMPs) in the Sun. We emphasize that the astrophysics of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-15 Francis Halzen , Dan Hooper

Neutrinos are key to probing the deep structure of matter and the high-energy Universe. Yet, until recently, their interactions had only been measured at laboratory energies up to about 350 GeV. An opportunity to measure their interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-06 Mauricio Bustamante , Amy Connolly

The discovery of a particle that could be the lightest CP-even Higgs of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) and the lack of evidence so far for supersymmetry at the LHC have many profound implications,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Paul Bergeron , Stefano Profumo

Existing data hints that high energy cosmic ray experiments may offer the most promissing shot at finding a dark matter particle. A search in the PeV mass range is suggested, where the discovery of such a particle might help explain the GZK…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-17 Yukio Tomozawa

While astrophysical observations imply that 85% of the matter content is unaccounted for, the nature of this dark matter (DM) component remains unknown. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) - DM particles that interact at or below…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Eliot Genton , Jeffrey Lazar , Carlos Argüelles , Gwenhaël de Wasseige