New particles in theories beyond the standard model can manifest as stable relics that interact strongly with visible matter and make up a small fraction of the total dark matter abundance. Such particles represent an interesting physics target since they can evade existing bounds from direct detection due to their rapid thermalization in high-density environments. In this work we point out that their annihilation to visible matter inside large-volume neutrino telescopes can provide a new way to constrain or discover such particles. The signal is the most pronounced for relic masses in the GeV range, and can be efficiently constrained by existing Super-Kamiokande searches for di-nucleon annihilation. We also provide an explicit realization of this scenario in the form of secluded dark matter coupled to a dark photon, and we show that the present method implies novel and stringent bounds on the model that are complementary to direct constraints from beam dumps, colliders, and direct detection experiments.
We explore the possibility of distinguishing neutrino mass hierarchies through the neutrino signal from dark matter annihilation at neutrino telescopes. We consider a simple extension of the standard model where the neutrino masses and mixing angles are obtained via the type-II seesaw mechanism as an explicit example. We show that future extensions of IceCube neutrino telescope may detect the neutrino signal from DM annihilation at the Galactic Center and inside the Sun, and differentiate between the normal and inverted mass hierarchies, in this model.
We perform an analysis of the influence of non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) on neutrino signal from dark matter annihilations in the Sun. Taking experimentally allowed benchmark values for the matter NSI parameters we show that the evolution of such neutrinos with energies at GeV scale can be considerably modified. We simulate propagation of neutrinos from the Sun to the Earth for realistic dark matter annihilation channels and find that the matter NSI can result in at most 30% correction to the signal rate of muon track events at neutrino telescopes. Still present experimental bounds …
The stellar energy loss rates due to the production of the neutrino pair process $e^+e^- \rightarrow (W, Z, γ) \rightarrow ν_e \bar{ν_e}$ are calculated in the minimal extension of Standard Model with electromagnetic properties of Dirac neutrinos which takes the account of the contribution of the neutrino charge radius, anapole moment and dipole moments. We have shown that the contribution of the electron neutrino's dipole moment is small compared with that of the charge radius. The obtained results are also considered with results obtained using the Standard Model.
Using idealized models of the accretion disk, we investigate the effects induced by the modified theories of gravity on the annihilation of the neutrino pair annihilation into electron-positron pairs ($ν{\bar ν}\to e^-e^+$), occurring near the rotational axis. For the accretion disk, we have considered the models with temperature $T=constant$ and $T\propto r^{-1}$. In both cases, we find that the modified theories of gravity lead to an enhancement, up to more than one order of magnitude with respect to General Relativity, of the rate of the energy deposition rate of neutrino pair annihilation.
We propose a Two-Loop induced radiative neutrino model with hidden gauged $U(1)$ symmetry, in which a dark matter of Dirac fermion arises. The relic density gets contribution from annihilation and semi-annihilation due to a residual $\mathbb{Z}_3$ parity. After imposing the requirement of neutrino oscillation data and lepton flavour violation bounds, we find out that the semi-annihilation plays a crucial role in order to satisfy the relic density constraint $0.117 < Ωh^2 < 0.123$, by proceeding near either one of two deconstructive scalar resonances. Our numerical analysis demonstrates the all…
We discuss the discovery potential of JUNO experiment for neutrino lines from MeV dark matter (DM) annihilation and decay in a model independent way. We find that JUNO will be able to give severe constraints on the cross section of DM annihilating into neutrinos and on the lifetime of DM decaying into neutrinos. More concretely, with $20$ years of data-taking in the fiducial volume $17$ kton, the cross section will be constrained smaller than $4\times 10^{-26}\,{\rm cm^{3}\,sec^{-1}}$ for the mass of a DM particle $15\,{\rm MeV} \lesssim m_χ \lesssim 50\,{\rm MeV}$ at $90\,\%$ C.L., which migh…
The Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) so far remain one of the most popular candidates for dark matter. If captured gravitationally inside the core of the Sun, these WIMPs may produce high energy neutrinos as the end product in case they undergo self annihilations at the solar core. In this work, we address the detectability of such neutrinos at the proposed KM3NeT detector. Upper bounds of the detection rate for such neutrinos at KM3NeT are computed for the case of a generic dark matter scenario and also when specific models for particle dark matter are chosen. In this work, upper …
Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) can be gravitationally captured by the Sun and trapped in its core. The annihilation of those WIMPs into Standard Model particles produces a spectrum of neutrinos whose energy distribution is related to the dark matter mass. In this work, we present the theoretical framework for relating an observed neutrino flux to the WIMP-nucleon cross section and summarize a previous solar WIMP search carried out by IceCube. We then outline an ongoing updated solar WIMP search, focusing on improvements over the previous search.
