Upward muon signals at neutrino detectors as a probe of dark matter properties

Abstract

We study upward muon flux at neutrino detectors such as Super-Kamiokande resulting from high-energy neutrinos produced by the dark matter annihilation/decay at the Galactic center. In particular, we distinguish showering and non-showering muons as their energy loss processes inside the detector, and show that this information is useful for discriminating dark matter models.

Comments: 7 pages, 6 figures; minor correction, to appear in PLB