Constraints on metastable superheavy dark matter coupled to sterile neutrinos with the Pierre Auger Observatory

(The Pierre Auger Collaboration)

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Abstract

Dark matter particles could be superheavy, provided their lifetime is much longer than the age of the Universe. Using the sensitivity of the Pierre Auger Observatory to ultrahigh energy neutrinos and photons, we constrain a specific extension of the Standard Model of particle physics that meets the lifetime requirement for a superheavy particle by coupling it to a sector of ultralight sterile neutrinos. Our results show that, for a typical dark coupling constant of 0.1, the mixing angle θm between active and sterile neutrinos must satisfy, roughly, θm≲1.5×10-6(MX/109 GeV)-2 for a mass MX of the dark-matter particle between 108 GeV and 1011 GeV.

Original languageAmerican English
Article numberL081101
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume109
Issue number8
DOIs
StateIndexed - 15 Apr 2024
Externally publishedYes

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