31 March 2022 to 1 April 2022
Faculty of Science - University of Granada
Europe/Madrid timezone

Constraining EeV-Scale Dark Matter with Neutrino Observatories Using Tau Regeneration

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20m
Sala de Claustros (Faculty of Science - University of Granada)

Sala de Claustros

Faculty of Science - University of Granada

Facultad de Ciencias - Campus Fuentenueva Av. Fuentenueva Granada, Spain

Speaker

Jeffrey Lazar (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Description

In 2016 and 2018, the ANITA collaboration reported the observation of two anomalous events, with polarizations consistent with up-going neutrinos, but coming from too far below the horizon to have traversed Earth given their energies. While all Standard Model (SM) explanations of these events have been ruled out, explanations from beyond Standard Model scenarios have been put forth in the literature, including scenarios in which these events arise from heavy dark matter decay to SM particles. In this contribution, we use tau neutrino regeneration to constrain one such explanation. Using ANTARES and IceCube public data, we look for an excess of neutrinos coming from this dark matter decaying in the Galactic Center and the Sun. Furthermore, we show the first accurate simulation of tau neutrino regeneration in the Sun.

Primary author

Jeffrey Lazar (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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