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	Bhattacharya, A.; Esmaili, A.; Palomares-Ruiz, S.; Sarcevic, I. | 
	
		  
		  
		  
		
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	Title | 
	Update on decaying and annihilating heavy dark matter with the 6-year IceCube HESE data | 
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	Journal Article | 
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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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	Keywords | 
	dark matter theory; ultra high energy photons and neutrinos | 
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	Abstract | 
	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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