Upgoing ANITA events as evidence of the CPT symmetric universe

Journal Article · 11 May 2018 · Letters in High Energy Physics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31526/LHEP.1.2018.03 · OSTI ID:1597981

Anchordoqui, Luis ^[1]; Barger, Vernon ^[2]; Learned, John G. ^[3]; Marfatia, Danny ^[3]; Weiler, Thomas J. ^[4]

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1. City Univ. of New York (CUNY), NY (United States); American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, NY (United States); UH High Energy Physics Group
2. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
3. Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
4. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States)

We explain the two upgoing ultra-high energy shower events observed by ANITA as arising from the decay in the Earth's interior of the quasi-stable dark matter candidate in the CPT symmetric universe. The dark matter particle is a 480 PeV right-handed neutrino that decays into a Higgs boson and a light Majorana neutrino. The latter interacts in the Earth's crust to produce a tau lepton that in turn initiates an atmospheric upgoing shower. The fact that both events emerge at the same angle from the Antarctic ice-cap suggests an atypical dark matter density distribution in the Earth.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
• Grant/Contract Number: SC0010504
• OSTI ID: 1597981
• Journal Information: Letters in High Energy Physics, Journal Name: Letters in High Energy Physics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1; ISSN 2632-2714
• Publisher: Andromeda Publishing and Academic Services Ltd.Copyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English