Published January 27, 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

Geometric compatibility of IceCube TeV-PeV neutrino excess and its galactic dark matter origin

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin,University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 (United States)
  • 2. Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan,Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (United States)
  • 3. Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center,West Washington Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 (United States)

Description

We perform a geometric analysis for the sky map of the IceCube TeV-PeV neutrino excess and test its compatibility with the sky map of decaying dark matter signals in our galaxy. We have found that a galactic decaying dark matter component in general improve the goodness of the fit of our model, although the pure isotropic hypothesis has a better fit than the pure dark matter one. We also consider several representative decaying dark matter, which can provide a good fit to the observed spectrum at IceCube with a dark matter lifetime of around 12 orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2016)161; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/13659

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2016
Journal Issue
01
Journal Page Range
p. 161
ISSN
1029-8479

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Copyright
Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP01(2016)161; ARXIV:1311.5864; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:13659
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)