Hadronically decaying heavy dark matter and high-energy neutrino limits

Abstract

We consider dark matter consisting of long-living particles with masses 10⁷ GeV ≲ M ≲10¹⁶ GeV decaying through hadronic channel as a source of high-energy neutrino. Using recent data on high-energy neutrino from IceCube and Pierre Auger experiments, we derive the upper-limits on neutrino flux from dark matter decay and constraints on dark matter parameter space. For the dark matter masses of order 10⁸ GeV the constraints derived are slightly stronger than those obtained for the same dark matter model using the highenergy gamma-ray limits.