High-Energy Neutrino Signatures of Dark Matter Decaying into Leptons

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2009-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/0907.2385v2

Phys.Rev.D81:016006,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

4 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.016006

Decaying dark matter has previously been proposed as a possible explanation for the excess high energy cosmic ray electrons and positrons seen by PAMELA and the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (FGST). To accommodate these signals however, the decays must be predominantly leptonic, to muons or taus, and therefore produce neutrinos, potentially detectable with the IceCube neutrino observatory. We find that, with five years of data, IceCube (supplemented by DeepCore) will be able to significantly constrain the relevant parameter space of decaying dark matter, and may even be capable of discovering dark matter decaying in the halo of the Milky Way.

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