Probing dark matter signals in neutrino telescopes through angular power spectrum

Abstract

The hypothesis of two different components in the high-energy neutrino flux observed with IceCube has been proposed to solve the tension among different data-sets and to account for an excess of neutrino events at 100 TeV. In addition to a standard astrophysical power-law component, the second component might be explained by a different class of astrophysical sources, or more intriguingly, might originate from decaying or annihilating dark matter. These two scenarios can be distinguished thanks to the different expected angular distributions of neutrino events. Neutrino signals from dark matter are indeed expected to have some correlation with the extended galactic dark matter halo. In this paper, we perform angular power spectrum analyses of simulated neutrino sky maps to investigate the two-component hypothesis with a contribution from dark matter. We provide current constraints and expected sensitivity to dark matter parameters for future neutrino telescopes such as IceCube-Gen2 and KM3NeT. The latter is found to be more sensitive than IceCube-Gen2 to look for a dark matter signal at low energies towards the galactic center. Finally, we show that after 10 years of data-taking, they will firmly probe the current best-fit scenario for decaying dark matter by exploiting the angular information only.

arXiv comment14 pages, 9 figures. v2: KM3NeT results updated after correcting the effective area normalization. v3: Accepted for publication in JCAP

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