arxiv: 2606.09986 · v1 · ★pith:MWM5ZOVEnew · submitted 2026-06-08 · ✦ hep-ex · hep-ph
Testing Heavy Dark Matter Decay as the Origin of KM3-230213A
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This work explores the hypothesis that the ultra-high-energy neutrino event KM3-230213A originates from the decay of a heavy dark matter particle with a mass above PeV scale. The analysis exploits the deposited energy and arrival direction of the event as well as a complete detector Monte Carlo simulation to compute the expected signal distributions for different decay channels and assesses the relative contributions from Galactic and extragalactic dark matter. Assuming a dark matter origin of the event, we find that the preferred mass at 95% C.L. is larger than about 100 PeV in all scenarios considered, with best-fit lifetimes in the range $10^{26}$-$10^{27}$ s. These preferred regions are in tension with existing bounds from other neutrino telescopes and gamma-ray observations.
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