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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/10/049
Keywords
dark matter theory; neutrino astronomy; neutrino detectors; cosmic ray theory
Funding
- Academia Sinica [AS-CDA-109-M11]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Taiwan Young Talent Programme [2018TW2JA0005]
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [108-2112-M-001-010]
- Physics Division, National Center of Theoretical Science of Taiwan
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The direct detection of particle dark matter through its scattering with nucleons is of fundamental importance to understand the nature of DM. In this work, we propose that the high-energy neutrino detectors like IceCube can be used to uniquely probe the DM-nucleon cross-section for high-energy DM of similar to PeV, up-scattered by the high-energy cosmic rays. We derive for the first time strong constraints on the DM-nucleon cross-section down to similar to 10(-32) cm(2) at this energy scale for sub-GeV DM candidates. Such independent probe at energy scale far exceeding other existing direct detection experiments can therefore provide useful insights complementary to other searches.
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