Geometric compatibility of IceCube TeV-PeV neutrino excess and its galactic dark matter origin

Bai, Yang; Lu, Ran; Salvado, Jordi

doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2016)161

Title: Geometric compatibility of IceCube TeV-PeV neutrino excess and its galactic dark matter origin

Journal Article · Wed Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2016)161· OSTI ID:1327294

Bai, Yang ^[1]; Lu, Ran ^[2]; Salvado, Jordi ^[3]

Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Physics; Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States). Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Physics; Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, Madison, WI (United States)

Here, we perform a geometric analysis for the sky map of the IceCube TeV-PeV neutrino excess and test its compatibility with the sky map of decaying dark matter signals in our galaxy. Furthermore, we have found that a galactic decaying dark matter component in general improve the goodness of the fit of our model, although the pure isotropic hypothesis has a better fit than the pure dark matter one. Finally, we also consider several representative decaying dark matter, which can provide a good t to the observed spectrum at IceCube with a dark matter lifetime of around 12 orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-95ER40896; FG02-95ER40899

OSTI ID:: 1327294

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2016, Issue 1; ISSN 1029-8479

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