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Probing light dark matter through cosmic-ray cooling in active galactic nuclei

Gonzalo Herrera1,2 and Kohta Murase3,4,5

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Phys. Rev. D 110, L011701 – Published 22 July, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.L011701

Abstract

Recent observations of high-energy neutrinos from active galactic nuclei (AGN), NGC 1068 and TXS 0506+056, suggest that cosmic rays (CRs) are accelerated in the vicinity of the central supermassive black hole and high-energy protons and electrons can cool efficiently via interactions with ambient photons and gas. The dark matter density may be significantly enhanced near the black hole, and CRs could lose energies predominantly due to scatterings with the ambient dark matter particles. We propose CR cooling in AGN as a new probe of dark matter-proton and dark matter-electron scatterings. Under plausible astrophysical assumptions, our constraints on sub-GeV dark matter can be the strongest derived to date. Some of the parameter space favored by thermal light dark matter models might already be probed with current multimessenger observations of AGN.

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Phys. Rev. D 110, L011701– Published 22 July, 2024
  • Received 30 July 2023
  • Revised 14 March 2024
  • Accepted 21 June 2024
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