Towards detecting super-GeV dark matter via annihilation to neutrinos

Arina, Chiara;et.al.
(2023) Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics — Vol. 08 (2023)

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The next generation of neutrino telescopes will feature unprecedented sensitivities in the detection of neutrinos. Here we study the capabilities of a large-scale neutrino telescope, like the fully-operating KM3NeT experiment in the near future, for detecting dark matter annihilation signals from the Galactic Centre.We consider both ORCA and ARCA detectors, covering dark matter masses from a few GeV to 100 TeV. We obtain the sensitivities with a maximum-likelihood analysis method and present them as upper limits in the thermally averaged annihilation cross-section into Standard Model fermions. Our projections show that the sensitivity of such a neutrino telescope can reach the thermal relic line for mχ ≳ 1 TeV and for mχ ≃ few GeV, for the NFW dark matter density profile. This demonstrates that ORCA- and ARCA-like detectors will be able to perform competitive dark matter searches in a wide range of masses. The implications of these striking projections are investigated in a few selected dark matter particle models, where we show that neutrino telescopes are able to probe new parameter space.
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Arina, C., & et al. (2023). Towards detecting super-GeV dark matter via annihilation to neutrinos. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 08. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/08/006 (Original work published 2023)