# Dark matter searches in the 2020s - At the crossroads of the WIMP

11-13 November 2019
The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa Campus
Asia/Tokyo timezone

## Probing heavy dark matter decays with multi-messenger astrophysical data

12 Nov 2019, 12:12
1m
The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa Campus

#### The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa Campus

Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Board: 6
Poster DM Astrophysics

Dr Oscar Macias

### Description

We set conservative constraints on decaying dark matter particles with masses spanning a very wide range ($10^4-10^{16}$ GeV). For this we use multimessenger observations of cosmic-ray (CR) protons/antiprotons, electrons/positrons, neutrinos/antineutrinos and gamma rays. Focusing on decays into the $b\bar{b}$ channel, we simulate the spectra of dark matter yields by using the Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi equations and the Pythia package. We then propagate the CRs of dark matter origin till Earth by using the state-of-the-art numerical frameworks CRPropa, GALPROP and HelMod for the solution of the CR transport equation in the extragalactic, Galactic region and the heliosphere, respectively. Conservative limits are obtained by requiring that the predicted dark matter spectra at Earth be less than the observed CR spectra. Overall, we exclude dark matter lifetimes of $10^{28}$ s or shorter for all the masses investigated in this work. The most stringent constraints reach $10^{30}$ s for very heavy dark matter particles with masses in the range $10^{11}−10^{14}$ GeV.

Kavli IPMU

Dr Oscar Macias

### Co-authors

Prof. Koji Ishiwata Prof. Shin'ichiro Ando Prof. Makoto Arimoto