Published 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Highly-boosted dark matter and cutoff for cosmic-ray neutrinos through neutrino portal

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea ** (KR)
  • 2. Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 (China)

Description

We study the cutoff for the cosmic-ray neutrino, set by the scattering with cosmic background neutrinos into dark sector particles through a neutrino portal interaction. We find that a large interaction rate is still viable, when the dark sector particles are mainly coupled to the τ-neutrino, so that the neutrino mean free path can be reduced to be O(10) Mpc over a wide energy range. If stable enough, the dark sector particle, into which most of the cosmic-ray neutrino energy is transferred, can travel across the Universe and reach the earth. The dark sector particle can carry the energy as large as O(EeV) if it originates from a cosmogenic neutrino.

Availability note (English)

Available from https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2019/13/epjconf_isvhecri2018_04003.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/a0e1b6a107a647c2af80a40e5175e5ef

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
EPJ. Web of Conferences
Journal Volume
208
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
2100-014X

Conference

Title
30. International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions
Acronym
ISVHECRI 2018
Dates
21-25 May 2018
Place
Nagoya (Japan)

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
53098274
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
COSMIC NEUTRINOS; EEV RANGE; INTERACTIONS; MEAN FREE PATH; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARTICLES; SCATTERING; UNIVERSE
Descriptors DEC
COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; NEUTRINOS; RADIATIONS