| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 208, 2019
ISVHECRI 2018 - XX International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions
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| Article Number | 04003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Astroparticle Theory (+HECR) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920804003 | |
| Published online | 10 May 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920804003
Highly-boosted dark matter and cutoff for cosmic-ray neutrinos through neutrino portal
1
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
2
Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea **
* e-mail: yinwen@kaist.ac.kr
** After the talk, the affiliation was changed from IHEP to KAIST.
Published online: 10 May 2019
We study the cutoff for the cosmic-ray neutrino, set by the scattering with cosmic background neutrinos into dark sector particles through a neutrino portal interaction. We find that a large interaction rate is still viable, when the dark sector particles are mainly coupled to the τ-neutrino, so that the neutrino mean free path can be reduced to be O(10) Mpc over a wide energy range. If stable enough, the dark sector particle, into which most of the cosmic-ray neutrino energy is transferred, can travel across the Universe and reach the earth. The dark sector particle can carry the energy as large as O(EeV) if it originates from a cosmogenic neutrino.
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