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Strong Constraints on Higgsino Dark Matter from Solar Capture
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Abstract
Higgsino dark matter remains one of the most convincing dark matter candidates. It can exist in a ``quasi-Dirac" regime, when the splitting between two Majorana components is on the order of $O(\rm few~\,MeV)$ or less. Owing to the strong gravitational pull of the Sun, the DM particles accelerate to up to $\sim 1400$\,km/sec in the solar core, which allows for inelastic scattering on heavy elements and very effective capture onto solar-bound trajectories. We evaluate the expected flux of the neutrinos from the expected $χχ\to W^+W^-,ZZ$ annihilation for the cosmologically preferred mass, $m_χ\simeq 1.08$\,TeV while keeping the mass splitting $δ$ as a free parameter. Confronting it with the non-observation of high-energy neutrinos from the Sun by the IceCube experiment, we obtain a robust limit, $δ>566$\,keV. These limits exclude the interpretation of the recent LZ event in terms of endothermic inelastic scattering of Higgsino dark matter on xenon nuclei.
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