Revisiting ultrahigh-energy constraints on decaying superheavy dark matter

S Das, K Murase, T Fujii - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We revisit constraints on decaying very heavy dark matter (VHDM) using the latest ultrahigh-
energy cosmic-ray (UHECR; E≳ 10 18 eV) data and ultrahigh-energy (UHE) γ-ray flux upper …

Hunting for superheavy dark matter with the highest-energy cosmic rays

E Alcantara, LA Anchordoqui, JF Soriano - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
In 15 years of data taking, the Pierre Auger Observatory has observed no events beyond 1 0
11.3 GeV. This null result translates into an upper bound on the flux of ultrahigh-energy …

Constraining heavy decaying dark matter with the high energy gamma-ray limits

OE Kalashev, MY Kuznetsov - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
We consider decaying dark matter with masses 1 0 7≲ M≲ 1 0 16 GeV as a source of
ultrahigh energy (UHE) gamma rays. Using recent limits on UHE gamma-ray flux for …

Hunting super-heavy dark matter with ultra-high energy photons

LA Anchordoqui, C Bérat, ME Bertaina, A Castellina… - Astroparticle …, 2021 - Elsevier
At any epoch, particle physics must be open to completely unexpected discoveries, and that
is reason enough to extend the reach of searches for ultra-high energy (UHE) photons. The …

Status of superheavy dark matter

R Aloisio, V Berezinsky, M Kachelriess - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2006 - APS
Superheavy particles are a natural candidate for the dark matter in the universe and our
galaxy, because they are produced generically during inflation in cosmologically interesting …

Superheavy dark matter as UHECR source versus the SUGAR data

M Kachelriess, DV Semikoz - Physics Letters B, 2003 - Elsevier
Decay or annihilation products of superheavy dark matter (SHDM) could be responsible for
the end of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) spectrum. In this case, the south array …

Super heavy dark matter and UHECR anisotropy at low energy

R Aloisio, F Tortorici - Astroparticle Physics, 2008 - Elsevier
Super heavy quasi-stable particles are naturally produced in the early universe and could
represent a substantial fraction of the dark matter: the so-called super heavy dark matter …

Constraining very heavy dark matter using diffuse backgrounds of neutrinos and cascaded gamma rays

K Murase, JF Beacom - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider multi-messenger constraints on very heavy dark matter (VHDM) from recent
Fermi gamma-ray and IceCube neutrino observations of isotropic background radiation …

Super heavy dark matter in light of BICEP2, Planck and ultra high energy cosmic rays observations

R Aloisio, S Matarrese, AV Olinto - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The announcement by BICEP2 of the detection of B-mode polarization consistent with
primordial gravitational waves with a tensor-to-scalar ratio, r= 0.2+ 0.07− 0.05, challenged …

Current and future γ-ray searches for dark matter annihilation beyond the unitarity limit

D Tak, M Baumgart, NL Rodd… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
For decades, searches for electroweak-scale dark matter (DM) have been performed without
a definitive detection. This lack of success may hint that DM searches have focused on the …