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arXiv:2111.13644 (astro-ph)
[Submitted on 26 Nov 2021 (v1), last revised 6 Jun 2022 (this version, v2)]

Title:Direct Detection Constraints on Blazar-Boosted Dark Matter

Authors:Jin-Wei Wang, Alessandro Granelli, Piero Ullio
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Abstract:We explore the possibility that relativistic protons in the extremely powerful jets of blazars may boost via elastic collisions the dark matter particles in the surroundings of the source to high energies. We concentrate on two sample blazars, TXS 0506+056 - towards which IceCube recently reported evidence for a high-energy neutrino flux - and BL Lacertae, a representative nearby blazar. We find that the dark matter flux at Earth induced by these sources may be sizable, larger than the flux associated with the analogous process of dark matter boosted by galactic cosmic rays, and relevant to access direct detection for dark matter particle masses lighter than 1 GeV. From the null detection of a signal by XENON1T, MiniBooNE, and Borexino, we derive limits on dark matter-nucleus spin-independent and spin-dependent cross sections which, depending on the modelization of the source, improve on other currently available bounds for light dark matter candidates of 1 up to 5 orders of magnitude.
Comments: 6+5 pages, 3+2 figures, 1+1 table, 1 supplemental material; version accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:2111.13644 [astro-ph.HE]
  (or arXiv:2111.13644v2 [astro-ph.HE] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2111.13644
Journal reference: Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 221104 (2022)
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.221104

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From: Alessandro Granelli [view email]
[v1] Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:17:50 UTC (144 KB)
[v2] Mon, 6 Jun 2022 11:13:11 UTC (182 KB)
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