Dark matter decay to neutrinos
C. Argüelles, Diyaselis Delgado, Avi Friedlander, Ali Kheirandish, I. Safa, Aaron C. Vincent, Henry S. White
Abstract
It is possible that the strongest interactions between dark matter and the Standard Model occur via the neutrino sector. Unlike gamma rays and charged particles, neutrinos provide a unique avenue to probe for astrophysical sources of dark matter, since they arrive unimpeded and undeflected from their sources. Previously, we reported on annihilations of dark matter to neutrinos; here, we review constraints on the decay of dark matter into neutrinos over a range of dark matter masses from MeV to ZeV, compiling previously reported limits, exploring new electroweak corrections and computing constraints where none have been computed before. We examine the expected contributions to the neutrino flux at current and upcoming neutrino experiments as well as photons from electroweak emissions expected at gamma-ray telescopes, leading to constraints on the dark matter decay lifetime, which ranges from $\ensuremath{\tau}\ensuremath{\sim}1.2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{21}\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{s}$ at 10 MeV to $1.5\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{29}\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{s}$ at 1 PeV.