IceCube PeV Neutrinos and Leptophilic Dark Matter
arXiv:1605.05749 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/718/4/042014
Abstract
We analyze the scenario where the IceCube high energy neutrino events are explained in terms of an extraterrestrial flux due to two different components: a contribution coming from know astrophysical sources for energies up to few hundreds TeV and a top-down contribution originated by the decay of heavy dark matter particles with a mass of few PeV. Contrary to previous approaches, we consider a leptophilic three-body decay that dominates at PeV energies due to the absence of quarks in the final state. We find that the theoretical predictions of such a scenario are in a slightly better agreement with the IceCube data if the astrophysical component has a cut-off at about 100 TeV. This interpretation of IceCube data can be easily tested in the near future since the decaying dark matter scenario predicts a sharp cut-off at PeV energy scale and the observation of an anisotropy towards Galactic Center of our Galaxy in contrast with the isotropic astrophysical flux.
5 pages, 1 figure. Prepared for the proceedings of the conference TAUP 2015
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