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Attenuation of the ultra-high-energy neutrino flux by dark matter scatterings

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Ivan Esteban
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Alejandro Ibarra
DOI:10.1088/1475-7516/2026/04/064delete
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A flux of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos, produced by astrophysical sources at cosmological distances, is anticipated to exist and reach Earth. In this paper, we investigate the impact on the total flux, energy spectrum, and arrival directions of UHE neutrinos of neutrino-dark matter (DM) scatterings. We study scatterings both in the intergalactic medium and in the Milky Way. We emphasize the complementarity among neutrino detectors at different latitudes, that can probe anisotropies induced by neutrinos scattering with the Milky Way DM halo. We also discuss that, with mild astrophysical assumptions, limits on the DM-ν scattering cross section can be placed even if the neutrino sources are unknown. Finally, we explore all this phenomenology with the recent UHE neutrino event KM3230213A, and place the corresponding limits on the DM-ν scattering cross section.
Keywords:
ultra-high-energy neutrinos
dark matter scatterings
intergalactic medium
Milky Way DM halo
neutrino detectors
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics cover
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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