Superheavy Supersymmetric Dark Matter for the origin of KM3NeT Ultra-High Energy signal

Abstract

We propose an explanation for the recently reported ultra-high-energy neutrino signal at KM3NeT, which shows no clear association with known astrophysical sources. While decaying dark matter in the Galactic Center is a natural candidate, the observed arrival direction strongly suggests an extragalactic origin. We introduce a multicomponent dark matter scenario in which the components are part of a supermultiplet, with supersymmetry ensuring a nearly degenerate mass spectrum among the fields with different spins. In this setup, a cosmologically long-lived fermionic state decays into a slightly lighter bosonic dark matter state, producing a boosted neutrino spectrum with energy $E_{\nu }\sim 100$ PeV, determined by the mass difference. The heavy-to-light decay occurs at a cosmological redshift of $z\sim \text{a few}$ or higher, leading to an isotropic directional distribution of the signal.

arXiv comment9 pages, 3 figures, version accepted by PRD

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