Estimation of baryon asymmetry from dark matter decaying into IceCube neutrinos

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作者
Mukherjee, Tista [1 ]
Pandey, Madhurima [2 ]
Majumdar, Debasish [2 ]
Halder, Ashadul [3 ]
机构
[1] Presidency Univ, Dept Phys, 86-1 Coll St, Kolkata 700073, India
[2] HBNI, Astroparticle Phys & Cosmol Div, Saha Inst Nucl Phys, 1-AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India
[3] St Xaviers Coll, Dept Phys, 30 Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata 700016, India
来源
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A | 2021年 / 36卷 / 13期
关键词
Ultra-high energy neutrinos; IceCube; super-heavy dark matter; dark matter decay; baryon asymmetry; HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS; PARTICLES; RAYS; TEV;
D O I
10.1142/S0217751X21500780
中图分类号
O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
学科分类号
070202 ;
摘要
The recent results of IceCube Neutrino Observatory include an excess of PeV neutrino events which appear to follow a broken power-law different from the other lower energy neutrinos detected by IceCube. The possible astrophysical source of these neutrinos is still unknown. One possible source of such neutrinos could be the decay of nonthermal, long-lived heavy mass dark matter, whose mass should be > 10(6) GeV and could have produced at the very early Universe. They can undergo cascading decay via both hadronic and leptonic channels to finally produce such high energy neutrinos. This possibility has been explored in this work by studying the decay flux of these dark matter candidates. The mass and lifetime of such dark matter particles have been obtained by performing a chi(2) fit with the PeV neutrino data of IceCube. We finally estimate the baryon asymmetry produced in the Universe due to such dark matter decay.
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