Blazar Boosted Dark Matter in IceCube

[2608.14549] Blazar Boosted Dark Matter in IceCube Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search High Energy Physics - Phenomenology arXiv:2608.14549 (hep-ph) [Submitted on 14 Aug 2026] Title: Blazar Boosted Dark Matter in IceCube Authors: Alberto M. Gago , Jaime Hoefken Zink , Joel Jones-Pérez , Gabriel D. Zapata View a PDF of the paper titled Blazar Boosted Dark Matter in IceCube, by Alberto M. Gago and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: We study the sensitivity of IceCube to blazar-boosted dark matter in a fermionic dark matter model with a massive vector mediator coupling to quarks. To this aim, we compute the diffuse flux arising from a sample of 324 blazars with proton spectra inferred from multiwavelength observations, adopting conservative dark matter spike profiles around the central supermassive black holes and consistently accounting for attenuation effects during propagation through the Earth. The dark matter-nucleon scattering cross section is evaluated by including elastic, resonant single pion production, and deep inelastic contributions, with particular emphasis on resonant single-pion production channels in order to smoothly cover the transition between the elastic and deep inelastic regimes. Using IceCube neutrino data, we derive constraints on the parameter space of the model and show that this detection strategy can surpass the sensitivity of conventional direct-detection experiments for dark matter masses below $\sim 1$ GeV. We find that the signal is dominated by deep inelastic scattering and is therefore more sensitive to comparatively heavy mediators, while resonance processes provide a reduction of the event rate, reaching up to about $9\%$ near the experimental threshold. Our results demonstrate that IceCube constitutes a powerful probe of sub-GeV dark matter scenarios through the observation of blazar-boosted dark matter. Comments: 21 pages, 6 figures Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ; High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) Cite as: arXiv:2608.14549 [hep-ph] (or arXiv:2608.14549v1 [hep-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.14549 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Gabriel Damián Zapata [ view email ] [v1] Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:59:59 UTC (253 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Blazar Boosted Dark Matter in IceCube, by Alberto M. Gago and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: hep-ph < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: astro-ph astro-ph.HE References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) IArxiv recommender toggle IArxiv Recommender ( What is IArxiv? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab) Major funding support from

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