Diffuse astrophysical neutrinos from dark matter around blazars

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Hauptverfasser: De Marchi, Andrea Giovanni, Granelli, Alessandro, Nava, Jacopo, Sala, Filippo
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author De Marchi, Andrea Giovanni
Granelli, Alessandro
Nava, Jacopo
Sala, Filippo
author_facet De Marchi, Andrea Giovanni
Granelli, Alessandro
Nava, Jacopo
Sala, Filippo
contents Neutrinos from blazars can originate from inelastic scatterings between protons within their jets and sub-GeV dark matter (DM) around them, explaining IceCube detections of neutrinos from TXS 0506+056 that are otherwise challenging for models of its jet. In this paper we calculate such DM-induced high-energy neutrinos, from TXS 0506+056 as well as from a stacked blazar sample, in the four cases where DM-quark interactions are mediated by a new massive vector, axial, scalar, and pseudoscalar particle. Intriguingly, we find that this mechanism can saturate the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux observed by IceCube at high energies. Our mechanism will be tested by additional blazar observations and by various searches for sub-GeV DM.
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spellingShingle Diffuse astrophysical neutrinos from dark matter around blazars
De Marchi, Andrea Giovanni
Granelli, Alessandro
Nava, Jacopo
Sala, Filippo
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Neutrinos from blazars can originate from inelastic scatterings between protons within their jets and sub-GeV dark matter (DM) around them, explaining IceCube detections of neutrinos from TXS 0506+056 that are otherwise challenging for models of its jet. In this paper we calculate such DM-induced high-energy neutrinos, from TXS 0506+056 as well as from a stacked blazar sample, in the four cases where DM-quark interactions are mediated by a new massive vector, axial, scalar, and pseudoscalar particle. Intriguingly, we find that this mechanism can saturate the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux observed by IceCube at high energies. Our mechanism will be tested by additional blazar observations and by various searches for sub-GeV DM.
title Diffuse astrophysical neutrinos from dark matter around blazars
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06416