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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 (τχ1028s), superheavy (mχ=1071010GeV) dark matter that decays via χντ¯ντ or χνμ¯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 Bχντ¯ντΓχ in the range of (ϵρ/1010)BχντΓχ1.5×10291.5×1028s1. For χνμ¯νμ,mχ=1081010GeV, and Eμ>107GeV, the range of constraints is (ϵρ/1010)BχνμΓχ3×10297×1028s1.

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