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Super heavy dark matter origin of the PeV neutrino event: KM3-230213A

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arxiv 2503.04464 v3 pith:YN3WEQ3F submitted 2025-03-06 hep-ph astro-ph.COastro-ph.HEhep-ex

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The recent observation of the ultrahigh-energy neutrino event KM3-230213A by the KM3NeT experiment offers a compelling avenue to explore physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). In this paper, we explore a simplest possibility that this event originates from the decay of a super-heavy dark matter (SHDM). We consider a minimal scenario where the SHDM decays to neutrino and SM Higgs. We derive constraints on the DM lifetime as a function of DM mass, ensuring consistency with IceCube, Auger upper limits, and the observed KM3-230213A event, along with the gamma-ray constraints. We find that KM3-230213A gives stringent constraint on the DM mass ranging from $1.5\times10^8$ GeV to $5.2\times10^9$ GeV with lifetime in the range: $1.42\times10^{30}$ s to $5.4\times10^{29}$ s. Remarkably, in our SHDM scenario, the apparent tension between the KM3NeT observation and the nonobservation of this event by IceCube and Auger can be reduced to below $1.2\sigma$. Our results are applicable to any neutrinophilic SHDM models while evading gamma-ray constraints.

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