The direct detection of boosted dark matter at high energies and PeV events at IceCube

Bhattacharya, A.; Gandhi, R.; Gupta, A.

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2015/03/027

Title: The direct detection of boosted dark matter at high energies and PeV events at IceCube

Abstract

We study the possibility of detecting dark matter directly via a small but energetic component that is allowed within present-day constraints. Drawing closely upon the fact that neutral current neutrino nucleon interactions are indistinguishable from DM-nucleon interactions at low energies, we extend this feature to high energies for a small, non-thermal but highly energetic population of DM particle χ, created via the decay of a significantly more massive and long-lived non-thermal relic Φ, which forms the bulk of DM. If χ interacts with nucleons, its cross-section, like the neutrino-nucleus coherent cross-section, can rise sharply with energy leading to deep inelastic scattering, similar to neutral current neutrino-nucleon interactions at high energies. Thus, its direct detection may be possible via cascades in very large neutrino detectors. As a specific example, we apply this notion to the recently reported three ultra-high energy PeV cascade events clustered around 1 – 2 PeV at IceCube (IC). We discuss the features which may help discriminate this scenario from one in which only astrophysical neutrinos constitute the event sample in detectors like IC.

Authors:

Bhattacharya, A. ^[1]; Gandhi, R. ^[2]; Gupta, A. ^[3]

Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Jhunsi, Allahabad (India); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Jhunsi, Allahabad (India)

Publication Date:: Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015

Research Org.:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1214549

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-04ER41298; FG02-13ER41976

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 2015; Journal Issue: 03; Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; dark matter theory; neutrino detectors; ultra high energy photons and neutrinos

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                    Bhattacharya, A., Gandhi, R., and Gupta, A. The direct detection of boosted dark matter at high energies and PeV events at IceCube.  United States: N. p., 2015. 
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  title        = {The direct detection of boosted dark matter at high energies and PeV events at IceCube},

  author       = {Bhattacharya, A. and Gandhi, R. and Gupta, A.},

  abstractNote = {We study the possibility of detecting dark matter directly via a small but energetic component that is allowed within present-day constraints. Drawing closely upon the fact that neutral current neutrino nucleon interactions are indistinguishable from DM-nucleon interactions at low energies, we extend this feature to high energies for a small, non-thermal but highly energetic population of DM particle χ, created via the decay of a significantly more massive and long-lived non-thermal relic Φ, which forms the bulk of DM. If χ interacts with nucleons, its cross-section, like the neutrino-nucleus coherent cross-section, can rise sharply with energy leading to deep inelastic scattering, similar to neutral current neutrino-nucleon interactions at high energies. Thus, its direct detection may be possible via cascades in very large neutrino detectors. As a specific example, we apply this notion to the recently reported three ultra-high energy PeV cascade events clustered around 1 – 2 PeV at IceCube (IC). We discuss the features which may help discriminate this scenario from one in which only astrophysical neutrinos constitute the event sample in detectors like IC.},

  doi          = {10.1088/1475-7516/2015/03/027},

  journal      = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},

  number       = 03,

  volume       = 2015,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015},

  month        = {Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015}

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