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Main Authors: Argüelles, Carlos A., Farrag, Kareem, Katori, Teppei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18126
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author Argüelles, Carlos A.
Farrag, Kareem
Katori, Teppei
author_facet Argüelles, Carlos A.
Farrag, Kareem
Katori, Teppei
contents The ultra-light dark matter is a new class of dark matter candidates. Unlike traditional dark matter particle candidates, the ultra-light dark matter behaves like a classical field, which saturates the entire Milky Way galaxy with a coherent oscillation. If such dark matter exists and couples with neutrinos, properties of astrophysical neutrinos propagating in the Milky Way would be modified and detectable by neutrino telescopes such as IceCube. Meantime, IceCube looked for quantum-gravity-motivated effects from the astrophysical neutrino flavour information. IceCube did not find evidence of new physics, and they set limits on neutrino - Lorentz violating field couplings. Here, we investigate if these results can be applied to limit the ultra-light dark matter couplings with neutrinos. It is found that the strong limits of neutrino-dark matter couplings in low dark matter mass regions can be obtained in this approach.
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spellingShingle Ultra-light Dark Matter Search with Astrophysical Neutrino Flavour
Argüelles, Carlos A.
Farrag, Kareem
Katori, Teppei
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
The ultra-light dark matter is a new class of dark matter candidates. Unlike traditional dark matter particle candidates, the ultra-light dark matter behaves like a classical field, which saturates the entire Milky Way galaxy with a coherent oscillation. If such dark matter exists and couples with neutrinos, properties of astrophysical neutrinos propagating in the Milky Way would be modified and detectable by neutrino telescopes such as IceCube. Meantime, IceCube looked for quantum-gravity-motivated effects from the astrophysical neutrino flavour information. IceCube did not find evidence of new physics, and they set limits on neutrino - Lorentz violating field couplings. Here, we investigate if these results can be applied to limit the ultra-light dark matter couplings with neutrinos. It is found that the strong limits of neutrino-dark matter couplings in low dark matter mass regions can be obtained in this approach.
title Ultra-light Dark Matter Search with Astrophysical Neutrino Flavour
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18126