| Title: |
Cosmological implications of photon-flux upper limits at ultra-high energies in scenarios of Planckian-interacting massive particles for dark matter |
| Authors: |
Abreu, Pedro; Aglietta, Marco; Albury, Justin M.; Allekotte, Ingomar; Almeida Cheminant, Kevin; Almela, Alejandro; Aloisio, Roberto; Alvarez-Muñiz, Jaime; Alves Batista, Rafael; Ammerman Yebra, Juan; Anastasi, Gioacchino Alex; Anchordoqui, Luis; Andrada, Belén; Andringa, Sofia; Aramo, Carla; Araújo Ferreira, Paulo Ricardo; Arnone, Enrico; Arteaga Velázquez, Juan Carlos; Asorey, Hernán Gonzalo; Assis, Pedro; Avila, Gualberto; Avocone, Emanuele; Badescu, Alina Mihaela; Bakalova, Alena; Balaceanu, Alexandru; Barbato, Felicia; Bellido, Jose A.; Berat, Corinne; Bertaina, Mario Edoardo; Bhatta, Gopal; Biermann, Peter; Binet, Virginia; Bismark, Kathrin; Bister, Teresa; Biteau, Jonathan; Blazek, Jiri; Bleve, Carla; Blümer, Johannes; Boháčová, Martina; Boncioli, Denise; Bonifazi, Carla; Bonneau Arbeletche, Luan; Borodai, Nataliia; Botti, Ana Martina; Brack, Jeffrey; Bretz, Thomas; Brichetto Orchera, P. Gabriel; Briechle, Florian Lukas; Buchholz, Peter; Bueno, Antonio; Buitink, Stijn; Buscemi, Mario; Büsken, Max; Caballero-Mora, Karen S.; Caccianiga, Lorenzo; Canfora, Fabrizia; Caracas, Ioana; Caruso, Rossella; Castellina, Antonella; Catalani, Fernando; Cataldi, Gabriella; Cazon, Lorenzo; Cerda, Marcos; Chinellato, Jose Augusto; Chudoba, Jiri; Chytka, Ladislav; Clay, Roger W.; Cobos Cerutti, Agustín; Colalillo, Roberta; Coleman, Alan; Coluccia, Maria Rita; Conceição, Ruben; Condorelli, Antonio; Consolati, Giovanni; Contreras, Fernando; Convenga, Fabio; Correia dos Santos, Diego; Covault, Corbin; Dasso, Sergio; Daumiller, Kai; Dawson, Bruce R.; Day, Jarryd A.; de Almeida, Rogerio M.; de Jesús, Joaquín; de Jong, Sijbrand J.; de Mello Neto, J.R.T.; de Mitri, Ivan; de Oliveira, Jaime; de Oliveira Franco, Danelise; de Palma, Francesco; de Souza, Vitor; de Vito, Emanuele; del Popolo, Antonino; del Río, Mariano; Deligny, Olivier; Deval, Luca; Di Matteo, Armando; Dobre, Madalina; Dobrigkeit, Carola; d'Olivo, Juan Carlos; Domingues Mendes, Luis Miguel; dos Anjos, Rita; Dova, Maria Teresa; Ebr, Jan; Engel, Ralph; Epicoco, Italo; Erdmann, Martin; Escobar, Carlos O.; Etchegoyen, Alberto; Falcke, Heino; Farmer, John; Farrar, Glennys; Fauth, Anderson; Fazzini, Norberto; Feldbusch, Fridtjof; Fenu, Francesco; Fick, Brian; Figueira, Juan Manuel; Filipčič, Andrej; Fitoussi, Thomas; Fodran, Tomas; Fujii, Toshihiro; Fuster, Alan; Galea, Cristina; Galelli, Claudio; García, Beatriz; Garcia Vegas, Adrianna Luz; Gemmeke, Hartmut; Gesualdi, Flavia; Gherghel-Lascu, Alexandru; Ghia, Piera Luisa; Giaccari, Ugo; Giammarchi, Marco; Glombitza, Jonas; Gobbi, Fabian; Gollan, Fernando; Golup, Geraldina; Gómez Berisso, Mariano; Gómez Vitale, Primo F.; Gongora, Juan Pablo; González, Juan Manuel; González, Nicolás; Goos, Isabel; Góra, Dariusz; Gorgi, Alessio; Gottowik, Marvin; Grubb, Trent D.; Guarino, Fausto; Guedes, Germano; Guido, Eleonora; Hahn, Steffen; Hamal, Petr; Hampel, Matías Rolf; Hansen, Patricia; Harari, Diego; Harvey, Violet M.; Haungs, Andreas; Hebbeker, Thomas; Heck, Dieter; Hill, Gary C.; Hojvat, Carlos; Hörandel, Jörg; Horvath, Pavel; Hrabovský, Miroslav; Huege, Tim; Insolia, Antonio; Isar, Paula Gina; Janecek, Petr; Johnsen, Jeffrey A.; Jurysek, Jakub; Kääpä, Alex; Kampert, Karl-Heinz; Keilhauer, Bianca; Khakurdikar, Abha; Kizakke Covilakam, Varada Varma; Klages, Hans; Kleifges, Matthias; Kleinfeller, Jonny; Knapp, Felix; Kunka, Norbert; Lago, Bruno L.; Langner, Niklas; Leigui de Oliveira, Marcelo Augusto; Lenok, Vladimir; Letessier-Selvon, Antoine; Lhenry-Yvon, Isabelle; Lo Presti, Domenico; Lopes, Luis; López, Rebeca; Lu, Lu; Luce, Quentin; Lundquist, Jon Paul; Machado Payeras, Allan; Mancarella, Giovanni; Mandat, Dusan; Manning, Bradley C.; Manshanden, Julien; Mantsch, Paul; Marafico, Sullivan; Mariani, Federico Maria; Mariazzi, Analisa; Mariş, Ioana; Marsella, Giovanni; Martello, Daniele; Martinelli, Sara; Martínez Bravo, Oscar; Mastrodicasa, Massimo; Mathes, Hermann-Josef; Matthews, James; Matthiae, Giorgio; Mayotte, Eric; Mayotte, Sonja; Mazur, Peter; Medina-Tanco, Gustavo; Melo, Diego; Menshikov, Alexander; Michal, Stanislav; Micheletti, Maria Isabel; Miramonti, Lino; Mollerach, Silvia; Montanet, François; Morejon, Leonel; Morello, Carlo; Mostafá, Miguel; Müller, Ana L.; Muller, Marcio Aparecido; Mulrey, Katharine; Mussa, Roberto; Muzio, Marco; Namasaka, Wilson M.; Nasr-Esfahani, Alina; Nellen, Lukas; Nicora, Gabriela; Niculescu-Oglinzanu, Mihai; Niechciol, Marcus; Nitz, Dave; Norwood, Ian; Nosek, Dalibor; Novotny, Vladimir; Nožka, Libor; Nucita, Achille; Núñez, Luis; Oliveira, Cainã; Palatka, Miroslav; Pallotta, Juan; Papenbreer, Philipp; Parente, Gonzalo; Parra, Alejandra; Pawlowsky, Jannis; Pech, Miroslav; Pękala, Jan; Pelayo, Rodrigo; Peña-Rodriguez, Jesús; Pereira Martins, Edyvania Emily; Perez Armand, Johnnier; Pérez Bertolli, Carmina; Perrone, Lorenzo; Petrera, Sergio; Petrucci, Camilla; Pierog, Tanguy; Pimenta, Mário; Pirronello, Valerio; Platino, Manuel; Pont, Bjarni; Pothast, Mart; Privitera, Paolo; Prouza, Michael; Puyleart, Andrew; Querchfeld, Sven; Rautenberg, Julian; Ravignani, Diego; Reininghaus, Maximilian; Ridky, Jan; Riehn, Felix; Risse, Markus; Rizi, Vincenzo; Rodrigues de Carvalho, Washington; Rodriguez Rojo, Jorge Rubén; Roncoroni, Matías J.; Rossoni, Simone; Roth, Markus; Roulet, Esteban; Rovero, Adrian; Ruehl, Philip; Saftoiu, Alexandra; Saharan, Mohit; Salamida, Francesco; Salazar, Humberto; Salina, Gaetano; Sanabria Gomez, Jose; Sánchez, Federico; Moura Santos, Edivaldo; Santos, Eva; Sarazin, Fred; Sarmento, Raul; Sarmiento-Cano, Christian; Sato, Ricardo; Savina, Pierpaolo; Schäfer, Christoph M.; Scherini, Viviana; Schieler, Harald; Schimassek, Martin; Schimp, Michael; Schlüter, Felix; Schmidt, David; Scholten, Olaf; Schoorlemmer, Harm; Schovánek, Petr; Schröder, Frank G.; Schulte, Josina; Schulz, Tobias; Sciutto, Sergio; Scornavacche, Marina; Segreto, Alberto; Sehgal, Srijan; Shellard, Ronald C.; Sigl, Guenter; Silli, Gaia; Sima, Octavian; Smau, Raluca; Šmída, Radomir; Sommers, Paul; Soriano, Jorge F.; Squartini, Ruben; Stadelmaier, Maximilian; Stanca, Denis; Stanič, Samo; Stasielak, Jaroslaw; Stassi, Patrick; Streich, Alexander; Suárez-Durán, Mauricio; Sudholz, Tristan; Suomijärvi, Tiina; Supanitsky, A. Daniel; Szadkowski, Zbigniew; Tapia, Alex; Taricco, Carla; Timmermans, Charles; Tkachenko, Olena; Tobiska, Petr; Todero Peixoto, Carlos J.; Tomé, Bernardo; Torrès, Zoé; Travaini, Andres; Travnicek, Petr; Trimarelli, Caterina; Tueros, Matias; Ulrich, Ralf; Unger, Michael; Vaclavek, Lukáš; Vacula, Martin; Valdés Galicia, Jose F.; Valore, Laura; Varela, Enrique; Vásquez-Ramírez, Adriana; Veberič, Darko; Ventura, Cynthia; Vergara Quispe, Indira D.; Verzi, Valerio; Vicha, Jakub; Vink, Jacco; Vorobiov, Serguei; Wahlberg, Hernan; Watanabe, Clara; Watson, Alan; Weindl, Andreas; Wiencke, Lawrence; Wilczyński, Henryk; Wittkowski, David; Wundheiler, Brian; Yushkov, Alexey; Zapparrata, Orazio; Zas, Enrique; Zavrtanik, Danilo; Zavrtanik, Marko; Zehrer, Lukas |
| Contributors: |
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC); Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP); Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA); Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO); Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)); Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Pierre Auger; ANR-10-LABX-0038,P2IO,Physics of the 2 infinities and the origins(2010); ANR-11-IDEX-0003,IPS,Idex Paris-Saclay(2011); ANR-11-IDEX-0004,SUPER,Sorbonne Universités à Paris pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche(2011) |
| Source: |
ISSN: 2470-0010. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; American Physical Society |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Subject Terms: |
signature; particle: massive; coupling constant: gauge; interaction: gauge; energy: threshold; higher-dimensional; galaxy: halo; inflation: model; efficiency; Hubble constant; numerical calculations; cosmic background radiation; Auger; observatory; dark matter: density; coupling: nonminimal; energy: density; coupling: Higgs; [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]; [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph] |
| Description: |
International audience ; We present a thorough search for signatures that would be suggestive of super-heavy $X$ particles decaying in the Galactic halo, in the data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. From the lack of signal, we derive upper limits for different energy thresholds above ${\gtrsim}10^8$ GeV on the expected secondary by-product fluxes from $X$-particle decay. Assuming that the energy density of these super-heavy particles matches that of dark matter observed today, we translate the upper bounds on the particle fluxes into tight constraints on the couplings governing the decay process as a function of the particle mass. We show that instanton-induced decay processes allow us to derive a bound on the reduced coupling constant of gauge interactions in the dark sector: $\alpha_X \alt 0.09$, for $10^{9} \alt M_X/\text{GeV} < 10^{19}$. This upper limit on $\alpha_X$ is complementary to the non-observation of tensor modes in the cosmic microwave background in the context of Planckian-interacting massive particles for dark matter produced during the reheating epoch. Viable regions for this scenario to explain dark matter are delineated in several planes of the multidimensional parameter space that involves, in addition to $M_X$ and $\alpha_X$, the Hubble rate at the end of inflation, the reheating efficiency, and the non-minimal coupling of the Higgs with curvature. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/2208.02353; ARXIV: 2208.02353; INSPIRE: 2132397 |
| DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevD.107.042002 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-03762977; https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.042002 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.D2DF7EF |
| Database: |
BASE |