Superheavy Supersymmetric Dark Matter for the origin of KM3NeT Ultra-High Energy signal

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Main Authors: Jho, Yongsoo, Park, Seong Chan, Shin, Chang Sub
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author Jho, Yongsoo
Park, Seong Chan
Shin, Chang Sub
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Park, Seong Chan
Shin, Chang Sub
contents We propose an explanation for the recently reported ultra-high-energy neutrino signal at KM3NeT, which shows no clear association with known astrophysical sources. While decaying dark matter in the Galactic Center is a natural candidate, the observed arrival direction strongly suggests an extragalactic origin. We introduce a multicomponent dark matter scenario in which the components are part of a supermultiplet, with supersymmetry ensuring a nearly degenerate mass spectrum among the fields with different spins. In this setup, a cosmologically long-lived fermionic state decays into a slightly lighter bosonic dark matter state, producing a boosted neutrino spectrum with energy $E_ν\sim 100$ PeV, determined by the mass difference. The heavy-to-light decay occurs at a cosmological redshift of $z \sim \text{a few}$ or higher, leading to an isotropic directional distribution of the signal.
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spellingShingle Superheavy Supersymmetric Dark Matter for the origin of KM3NeT Ultra-High Energy signal
Jho, Yongsoo
Park, Seong Chan
Shin, Chang Sub
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
We propose an explanation for the recently reported ultra-high-energy neutrino signal at KM3NeT, which shows no clear association with known astrophysical sources. While decaying dark matter in the Galactic Center is a natural candidate, the observed arrival direction strongly suggests an extragalactic origin. We introduce a multicomponent dark matter scenario in which the components are part of a supermultiplet, with supersymmetry ensuring a nearly degenerate mass spectrum among the fields with different spins. In this setup, a cosmologically long-lived fermionic state decays into a slightly lighter bosonic dark matter state, producing a boosted neutrino spectrum with energy $E_ν\sim 100$ PeV, determined by the mass difference. The heavy-to-light decay occurs at a cosmological redshift of $z \sim \text{a few}$ or higher, leading to an isotropic directional distribution of the signal.
title Superheavy Supersymmetric Dark Matter for the origin of KM3NeT Ultra-High Energy signal
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18737