Published October 15, 2001
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Journal article
High energy neutrinos from superheavy dark matter annihilation
Description
Superheavy (M>1010 GeV) particles produced during inflation may be the dark matter, independent of their interaction strength. Strongly interacting superheavy particles will be captured by the Sun, and their annihilation in the center of the Sun will produce a flux of energetic neutrinos that should be detectable by neutrino telescopes. Depending on the particle mass, event rates in a cubic-kilometer detector range from several per hour to several per year. The signature of the process is a predominance of tau neutrinos, with a relatively flat energy spectrum of events ranging from 50 GeV to many TeV, and with the mean energy of detected tau neutrinos about 3 TeV
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.64.083504;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ph/0009017v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 64
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Journal Page Range
- p. 083504-083504.10
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 32064349
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; NEUTRINOS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; SUN; TAU NEUTRINOS; TELESCOPES
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HEAVY LEPTONS; INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; STARS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- FG02-92-ER40699
- Notes
- Othernumber: PRVDAQ000064000008083504000001; 046116PRD
- Funding organization
- (US)