28–30 Jul 2021
America/Bogota timezone

Heavy decaying dark matter at future neutrino radio telescopes

30 Jul 2021, 14:20
20m

Speaker

Rasmi Enrique Hajjar Muñoz

Description

In the next decade, ultra-high-energy neutrinos in the EeV-ZeV energy range will be potentially detected by next-generation neutrino telescopes. Although their primary goals are to observe cosmogenic neutrinos and to gain insight into extreme astrophysical environments, they have the great potential of indirectly probing the nature of dark matter. In this talk, we study the projected sensitivity of up-coming radio neutrino telescopes, such as RNO-G, GRAND and IceCube-gen2 radio array, to decaying dark matter scenarios. We investigate different dark matter decaying channels and masses, from $10^7$ to $10^{15}$ GeV. By assuming the observation of cosmogenic or newborn pulsar neutrinos, we forecast conservative constraints on the lifetime of heavy dark matter particles. We find that these limits are competitive with and highly complementary to previous multi-messenger analyses.

Authors

Damiano Francesco Giuseppe Fiorillo (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics) Marco Chianese (University of Naples "Federico II") Prof. Gennaro Miele (University of Naples "Federico II" - INFN Napoli - SSM) Dr Ninetta Saviano (INFN - Sezione di Napoli) Rasmi Enrique Hajjar Muñoz Stefano Morisi

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