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Bertone, G.; Cumberbatch, D.; Ruiz de Austri, R.; Trotta, R. |
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Dark Matter searches: the nightmare scenario |
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2012 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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01 |
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004 - 24pp |
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dark matter theory; dark matter experiments; neutrino detectors; solar and atmospheric neutrinos |
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The unfortunate case where the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) fails to discover physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) is sometimes referred to as the “Nightmare scenario” of particle physics. We study the consequences of this hypothetical scenario for Dark Matter (DM), in the framework of the constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (cMSSM). We evaluate the surviving regions of the cMSSM parameter space after null searches at the LHC, using several different LHC configurations, and study the consequences for DM searches with ton-scale direct detectors and the IceCube neutrino telescope. We demonstrate that ton-scale direct detection experiments will be able to conclusively probe the cMSSM parameter space that would survive null searches at the LHC with 100 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity at 14TeV. We also demonstrate that IceCube (80 strings plus DeepCore) will be able to probe as much as similar or equal to 17% of the currently favoured parameter space after 5 years of observation. |
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[Bertone, Gianfranco] Univ Zurich, Inst Theoret Phys, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland, Email: bertone@iap.fr |
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Iop Publishing Ltd |
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1475-7516 |
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WOS:000300403300004 |
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yes |
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937 |
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Bhattacharya, A.; Esmaili, A.; Palomares-Ruiz, S.; Sarcevic, I. |
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Update on decaying and annihilating heavy dark matter with the 6-year IceCube HESE data |
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2019 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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03 |
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5 |
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051 - 30pp |
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dark matter theory; ultra high energy photons and neutrinos |
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In view of the IceCube's 6-year high-energy starting events (HESE) sample, we revisit the possibility that the updated data may be better explained by a combination of neutrino fluxes from dark matter decay and an isotropic astrophysical power-law than purely by the latter. We find that the combined two-component flux qualitatively improves the fit to the observed data over a purely astrophysical one, and discuss how these updated fits compare against a similar analysis done with the 4-year HESE data. We also update fits involving dark matter decay via multiple channels, without any contribution from the astrophysical flux. We find that a DM-only explanation is not excluded by neutrino data alone. Finally, we also consider the possibility of a signal from dark matter annihilations and perform analogous analyses to the case of decays, commenting on its implications. |
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[Bhattacharya, Atri] Univ Liege, Space Sci Technol & Astrophys Res STAR Inst, Bat B5a, B-4000 Liege, Belgium, Email: a.bhattacharya@ulg.ac.be; |
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WOS:000469808500001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4038 |
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Bhattacharya, A.; Esmaili, A.; Palomares-Ruiz, S.; Sarcevic, I. |
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Probing decaying heavy dark matter with the 4-year IceCube HESE data |
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2017 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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07 |
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7 |
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027 - 36pp |
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dark matter theory; neutrino astronomy; neutrino detectors; ultra high energy photons and neutrinos |
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After the first four years of data taking, the IceCube neutrino telescope has observed 54 high-energy starting events (HESE) with deposited energies between 20TeV and 2PeV. The background from atmospheric muons and neutrinos is expected to be of about 20 events, all below 100TeV, thus pointing towards the astrophysical origin of about 8 events per year in that data set. However, their precise origin remains unknown. Here, we perform a detailed analysis of this event sample (considering simultaneously the energy, hemisphere and topology of the events) by assuming two contributions for the signal events: an isotropic power-law flux and a flux from decaying heavy dark matter. We fit the mass and lifetime of the dark matter and the normalization and spectral index of an isotropic power-law flux, for various decay channels of dark matter. We find that a significant contribution from dark matter decay is always slightly favored, either to explain the excess below 100TeV, as in the case of decays to quarks or, as in the case of neutrino channels, to explain the three multi-PeV events. Also, we consider the possibility to interpret all the data by dark matter decays only, considering various combinations of two decay channels. We show that the decaying dark matter scenario provides a better fit to HESE data than the isotropic power-law flux. |
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[Bhattacharya, Atri] Univ Liege, Space Sci Technol & Astrophys Res STAR Inst, Bat B5a, B-4000 Liege, Belgium, Email: a.bhattacharya@ulg.ac.be; |
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WOS:000406420500009 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3243 |
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Blennow, M.; Fernandez-Martinez, E.; Hernandez-Garcia, J.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Marcano, X.; Naredo-Tuero, D. |
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Bounds on lepton non-unitarity and heavy neutrino mixing |
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2023 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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08 |
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8 |
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030 - 41pp |
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Electroweak Precision Physics; Neutrino Mixing; Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos |
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We present an updated and improved global fit analysis of current flavour and electroweak precision observables to derive bounds on unitarity deviations of the leptonic mixing matrix and on the mixing of heavy neutrinos with the active flavours. This new analysis is motivated by new and updated experimental results on key observables such as V-ud, the invisible decay width of the Z boson and the W boson mass. It also improves upon previous studies by considering the full correlations among the different observables and explicitly calibrating the test statistic, which may present significant deviations from a & chi;(2) distribution. The results are provided for three different Type-I seesaw scenarios: the minimal scenario with only two additional right-handed neutrinos, the next to minimal one with three extra neutrinos, and the most general one with an arbitrary number of heavy neutrinos that we parametrise via a generic deviation from a unitary leptonic mixing matrix. Additionally, we also analyze the case of generic deviations from unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix, not necessarily induced by the presence of additional neutrinos. This last case relaxes some correlations among the parameters and is able to provide a better fit to the data. Nevertheless, inducing only leptonic unitarity deviations avoiding both the correlations implied by the right-handed neutrino extension as well as more strongly constrained operators is challenging and would imply significantly more complex UV completions. |
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[Blennow, Mattias] KTH Royal Inst Technol, AlbaNova Univ Ctr, Sch Engn Sci, Dept Phys, Roslagstullsbacken 21, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden, Email: emb@kth.se; |
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Springer |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:001044930400003 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Borexino Collaboration (Bellini, G. et al); Pena-Garay, C. |
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Absence of a day-night asymmetry in the Be-7 solar neutrino rate in Borexino |
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2012 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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707 |
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22-26 |
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Solar neutrinos; Day-night effect; CPT violation; Neutrino oscillations |
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We report the result of a search for a day-night asymmetry in the Be-7 solar neutrino interaction rate in the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. The measured asymmetry is A(dn) = 0.001 +/- 0.012 (stat) +/- 0.007 (syst), in agreement with the prediction of MSW-LMA solution for neutrino oscillations. This result disfavors MSW oscillations with mixing parameters in the LOW region at more than 8.5 sigma. This region is, for the first time, strongly disfavored without the use of reactor anti-neutrino data and therefore the assumption of CPT symmetry. The result can also be used to constrain some neutrino oscillation scenarios involving new physics. |
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[Carraro, C.; Davini, S.; Guardincerri, E.; Manuzio, G.; Pallavicini, M.; Perasso, S.; Salvo, C.; Testera, G.; Zavatarelli, S.] Univ Genoa, Dipartimento Fis, I-16146 Genoa, Italy, Email: marco.pallavicini@ge.infn.it |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000299757000004 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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