Particle Physics in Birmingham

Particle Physics Seminar

Wednesday 19th May 2021 at 13:30
ZOOM

(virtual coffee served at 13:15)

Neutrino-Dark Matter Connections with High Energy Neutrinos

Sergio Palomares-Ruiz (Valencia University)


Abstract

During the last decade, the IceCube neutrino telescope has steadily observed, for the first time, a flux of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. Their precise sources, however, are not established yet. Moreover, data analyses of different data samples in terms of an unbroken single power-law flux result in some tension. In this talk, I will discuss the possibility to explain IceCube data by including a contribution from dark matter decays or annihilations. From a more general perspective, I will also comment on how IceCube high-energy neutrino data can constrain dark matter properties.