Terrestrial and Martian Heat Flow Limits on Dark Matter

Abstract

If dark matter is efficiently captured by a planet, energy released in its annihilation can exceed that planet's total heat output. Building on prior work, we treat Earth's composition and dark matter capture in detail and present improved limits on dark matter-nucleon scattering cross sections for dark matter masses ranging from 0.1 to $10^{10}$ GeV. We also extend Earth limits by applying the same treatment to Mars. The scope of dark matter models considered is expanded to include spin-dependent nuclear interactions including isospin-independent, proton only, and neutron only interactions. We find that Earth and Mars heating bounds are alleviated for dark matter s-wave self-annihilation cross sections $\lesssim 10^{-44}\mathrm{c}{\mathrm{m}}^2$.

arXiv comment20 pages, 18 figures, PRD version

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