標題: Probing the coupling of heavy dark matter to nucleons by detecting neutrino signature from the Earth's core
作者: Lin, Guey-Lin
Lin, Yen-Hsun
Lee, Fei-Fan
物理研究所
Institute of Physics
公開日期: 5-二月-2015
摘要: We argue that the detection of the neutrino signature from the Earth's core can effectively probe the coupling of heavy dark matter (m(chi) > 10(4) GeV) to nucleons. We first note that direct searches for dark matter (DM) in such a mass range provide much less stringent constraint than the constraint provided by such searches for m(chi) similar to 100 GeV. Furthermore, the energies of neutrinos arising from DM annihilation inside the Sun cannot exceed a few TeVs at the Sun's surface due to the attenuation effect. Therefore, the sensitivity to the heavy DM coupling is lost. Finally, the detection of the neutrino signature from the Galactic halo can only probe DM annihilation cross sections. We present neutrino event rates in IceCube and KM3NeT arising from the neutrino flux produced by annihilation of Earth-captured DM heavier than 10(4) GeV. The IceCube and KM3NeT sensitivities to spin-independent DM-proton scattering cross section sigma(chi p) in this mass range are presented for both isospin-symmetric and isospin-violating cases.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.033002
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/124571
ISSN: 2470-0010
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.033002
期刊: PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume: 91
Issue: 3
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