16–19 Feb 2026
San-go-kan (Building #3)
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Superheavy Supersymmetric Dark Matter

19 Feb 2026, 10:40
20m
Seminar hall (San-go-kan (Building #3))

Seminar hall

San-go-kan (Building #3)

KEK, Tsukuba campus

Speaker

Seong Chan Park

Description

We propose an explanation for the recently reported ultrahigh-energy neutrino signal at KM3NeT, which shows no clear association with known astrophysical sources. While decaying dark matter in the Galactic Center is a natural candidate, the observed arrival direction strongly suggests an extragalactic origin. We introduce a multicomponent dark matter scenario in which the components are part of a supermultiplet, with supersymmetry ensuring a nearly degenerate mass spectrum among the fields with different spins. In this setup, a cosmologically long-lived fermionic state decays into a slightly lighter bosonic dark matter state, producing a boosted neutrino spectrum with energy around 100  PeV, determined by the mass difference. The heavy-to-light decay occurs at a cosmological redshift of 𝑧 =a few or higher, leading to an isotropic directional distribution of the signal.

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