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Probing sub-eV Dark Matter decays with PTOLEMY

Bondarenko, Kyrylo  
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Boyarsky, Alexey
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Nikolic, Marco
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March 1, 2021
Journal Of Cosmology And Astroparticle Physics

When the Dark Matter mass is below the eV-scale, its cosmological occupation number exceeds the ones of photons from the cosmic microwave background as well as of relic neutrinos. If such Dark Matter decays to pairs of neutrinos, it implies that experiments that seek the detection of the cosmic neutrino background may as well be sensitive to this additional form of "dark radiation". Here we study the prospects for detection taking into account various options for the forecasted performance of the future PTOLEMY experiment. From a detailed profile likelihood analysis we find that Dark Matter decays with lifetime as large as 10(4) Gyr or a sub-% Dark Matter fraction decaying today can be discovered. The prospects are facilitated by the distinct spectral event shape that is introduced from galactic and cosmological neutrino dark radiation fluxes. In the process we also clarify the importance of Pauli-blocking in the Dark Matter decay. The scenarios presented in this work can be considered early physics targets in the development of these instruments with relaxed demands on performance and energy resolution.

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DOI
10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/089
Web of Science ID

WOS:000636717400084

Author(s)
Bondarenko, Kyrylo  
Boyarsky, Alexey
Nikolic, Marco
Pradler, Josef
Sokolenko, Anastasia
Date Issued

2021-03-01

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Published in
Journal Of Cosmology And Astroparticle Physics
Issue

3

Start page

089

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Physics, Particles & Fields

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Physics

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cosmological neutrinos

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neutrino experiments

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dark matter experiments

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