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Abstract
Recent theoretical work has explored dark matter accumulation in the Earth and its drift toward the center of the Earth that, for the current age of the Earth, does not necessarily result in a concentration of dark matter (χ) in the Earth's core. We consider a scenario of long-lived (τχ∼1028s), superheavy (mχ=107−1010GeV) dark matter that decays via χ→ντ¯ντ or χ→νμ¯νμ. We show that an IceCube-like detector over 10 years can constrain a dark matter density that mirrors the Earth's density or has a uniform density with density fraction ϵρ combined with the partial decay width Bχ→ντ¯ντΓχ in the range of (ϵρ/10−10)Bχ→ντΓχ≲1.5×10−29−1.5×10−28s−1. For χ→νμ¯νμ,mχ=108−1010GeV, and Eμ>107GeV, the range of constraints is (ϵρ/10−10)Bχ→νμΓχ≲3×10−29−7×10−28s−1.