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Title: Update on decaying and annihilating heavy dark matter with the 6-year IceCube HESE data

Journal Article · · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Univ. of Liege, (Belgium). Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute
  2. Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago (Chile)
  3. Univ. of Valencia (Spain). Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)
  4. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)

In view of the IceCube's 6-year high-energy starting events (HESE) sample, we revisit the possibility that the updated data may be better explained by a combination of neutrino fluxes from dark matter decay and an isotropic astrophysical power-law than purely by the latter. We find that the combined two-component flux qualitatively improves the fit to the observed data over a purely astrophysical one, and discuss how these updated fits compare against a similar analysis done with the 4-year HESE data. We also update fits involving dark matter decay via multiple channels, without any contribution from the astrophysical flux. We find that a DM-only explanation is not excluded by neutrino data alone. Finally, we also consider the possibility of a signal from dark matter annihilations and perform analogous analyses to the case of decays, commenting on its implications.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0009913
OSTI ID:
1611217
Journal Information:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2019, Issue 05; ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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