We study the phenomenology of superheavy decaying dark matter with mass around 10^10 GeV which can arise in the low-energy limit of string compactifications. Generic features of string theory setups (such as high scale supersymmetry breaking and epochs of early matter domination driven by string moduli) can accommodate superheavy dark matter with the correct relic abundance. In addition, stringy instantons induce tiny R-parity violating couplings which make dark matter unstable with a lifetime well above the age of the Universe. Adopting a model-independent approach, we compute the flux and spectrum of high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos from three-body decays of superheavy dark matter and constrain its mass-lifetime plane with current observations and future experiments. We show that these bounds have only a mild dependence on the exact nature of neutralino dark matter and its decay channels. Applying these constraints to an explicit string model sets an upper bound of O(0.1) on the string coupling, ensuring that the effective field theory is in the perturbative regime.

Allahverdi, R., Arina, C., Chianese, M., Cicoli, M., Maltoni, F., Massaro, D., et al. (2024). Phenomenology of superheavy decaying dark matter from string theory. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2024(2), 0-30 [10.1007/jhep02(2024)192].

Phenomenology of superheavy decaying dark matter from string theory

Cicoli, Michele
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Maltoni, Fabio
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Massaro, Daniele
Membro del Collaboration Group
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2024

Abstract

We study the phenomenology of superheavy decaying dark matter with mass around 10^10 GeV which can arise in the low-energy limit of string compactifications. Generic features of string theory setups (such as high scale supersymmetry breaking and epochs of early matter domination driven by string moduli) can accommodate superheavy dark matter with the correct relic abundance. In addition, stringy instantons induce tiny R-parity violating couplings which make dark matter unstable with a lifetime well above the age of the Universe. Adopting a model-independent approach, we compute the flux and spectrum of high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos from three-body decays of superheavy dark matter and constrain its mass-lifetime plane with current observations and future experiments. We show that these bounds have only a mild dependence on the exact nature of neutralino dark matter and its decay channels. Applying these constraints to an explicit string model sets an upper bound of O(0.1) on the string coupling, ensuring that the effective field theory is in the perturbative regime.
2024
Allahverdi, R., Arina, C., Chianese, M., Cicoli, M., Maltoni, F., Massaro, D., et al. (2024). Phenomenology of superheavy decaying dark matter from string theory. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2024(2), 0-30 [10.1007/jhep02(2024)192].
Allahverdi, Rouzbeh; Arina, Chiara; Chianese, Marco; Cicoli, Michele; Maltoni, Fabio; Massaro, Daniele; Osiński, Jacek K.
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