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Searching for Hidden Sector Particles at Neutrino Telescopes

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Pith's one-line read IceCube double-bang events can probe hidden-sector particles with masses from 1 to 20 GeV.

desk verdict Solid double-bang proposal for IceCube hidden sector searches, with careful calculations and honest caveats; the reach is real but conditional on an unverified background rate and trigger. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.05326 v1 pith:3F762FCW submitted 2025-06-05 hep-ph hep-ex

Sagar Airen , Zackaria Chacko , Can Kilic , Ram Purandhar Reddy Sudha This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords hiddensectorlong-livedparticlesdouble-bangeventsneutrinoportalhyperchargeIceCubeheavyneutralleptonsdarkphoton
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The pith

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The reading

This paper argues that the IceCube neutrino telescope can directly detect light, long-lived hidden-sector particles through "double-bang" events: two visible cascades produced in the detector from a single high-energy collision. In the neutrino-portal scenario, an incoming neutrino strikes a nucleon inside IceCube, creating a heavy singlet neutrino that decays into a long-lived scalar; when the scalar later decays to Standard Model particles, a second cascade appears. In the hypercharge-portal scenario, an atmospheric muon produces a dark gauge boson outside the detector that decays into two long-lived fermions, each of which can decay inside the detector. The paper computes event rates and shows that with severe cuts, each cascade depositing at least 100 GeV and separated by at least 100 m, backgrounds drop below one event in fourteen years, giving IceCube a potential reach beyond current constraints for hidden-sector masses from about 1 GeV to 20 GeV.

What carries the argument

The central object is the double-bang signature: an event with two spatially separated cascades inside the detector, produced by a long-lived hidden-sector particle that decays at a distance from where it was created. What makes the signal clean is the selection requiring each cascade to deposit at least 100 GeV and the cascade origins to be separated by at least 100 m, which eliminates charged-current muon events and coincident neutral-current cascades. The longevity of the hidden particle is engineered differently in the two portals: in the neutrino portal, the scalar $\sigma$ decays to fermions only through helicity-suppressed or loop-suppressed channels, giving decay lengths of meters to kilometers; in the hypercharge portal, the fermion $\psi$ decays through an off-shell $Z'$ with a small mass splitting, also producing detector-scale lifetimes. The rate calculations combine production cross sections from deep-inelastic scattering, atmospheric neutrino or muon fluxes, hadronic decay widths near 1 GeV, and a Monte Carlo model of the optical trigger efficiency.

What would settle it

A dedicated search of IceCube data for two hadronic cascades, each depositing more than 100 GeV and with origins separated by more than 100 m, would settle the claim: if more than about one such event is found in fourteen years, the background model fails; if no trigger can record such events, the projected reach is moot. A direct Monte Carlo recalculation of the double-cascade background with $E_{\min}=100$ GeV and $L_{\min}=100$ m is the concrete check.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On the paper's own terms, the discovery is that the double-bang topology at IceCube can probe hidden sectors whose lightest particles are long-lived because of helicity suppression or small mass splittings. For the neutrino portal, a singlet neutrino $N$ produced by deep-inelastic neutrino scattering promptly decays to a scalar $\sigma$ plus a neutrino; $\sigma$ is naturally long-lived, and its visible decay gives the second cascade. The paper finds one-event contours for fourteen years that reach $|U_{N\ell}|^2$ below the $10^{-3}$ precision bound for $m_N$ from about 4 GeV to about 20 GeV. For the hypercharge portal, a $Z'$ produced by an atmospheric muon decays to two long-lived fermions $\psi$ and $\bar{\psi}$; requiring both to decay visibly inside the detector yields sensitivity beyond current precision-electroweak and collider constraints for $m_{Z'}$ from about 1 GeV to 10 GeV. The central quantitative result is that the combination of 100 GeV energy cuts and 100 m separation cuts reduces all Standard Model backgrounds to less than one event over the experiment's lifetime.

Load-bearing premise

The projected reach rests on the assumption that requiring each cascade to deposit at least 100 GeV and the two cascades to be separated by at least 100 m reduces all Standard Model backgrounds to below one event in fourteen years, using a single-cascade rate of $6.5\times10^{4}$ events per year taken from an unpublished thesis, and that a trigger for two separated 100 GeV cascades can actually be implemented.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A fourteen-year IceCube exposure with the proposed cuts would probe neutrino-portal mixing angles $|U_{N\ell}|^2$ below $10^{-3}$ for hidden-sector masses between about 4 and 20 GeV, a region where collider and beam-dump searches are weaker.
  • For the hypercharge portal, the same exposure would be sensitive to kinetic-mixing parameters $\epsilon$ beyond current precision-electroweak and low-energy collider constraints for $Z'$ masses between about 1 and 10 GeV.
  • A positive signal would appear as two cascades, each above 100 GeV, separated by more than 100 m, with no muon track connecting them, and within a microsecond-scale time window.
  • The background estimate implies that less than one Standard Model double-cascade event should be observed in fourteen years, so any such event would be a strong new-physics candidate.
  • Developing a trigger that records two separated 100 GeV cascades is a prerequisite; the paper assumes such a trigger can be built.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Going beyond the paper, the same double-cascade selection could be run on existing IceCube data as a null test: the observed number of separated 100 GeV cascades would directly validate or invalidate the background assumption even without new physics.
  • Going beyond the paper, the double-bang topology should generalize to any long-lived hidden-sector state that decays to cascades, so future larger detectors or lower energy thresholds would extend the reach to masses below 1 GeV.
  • Going beyond the paper, if the trigger and background estimates hold, neutrino telescopes become a background-free probe of couplings too small for collider displaced-vertex searches, effectively filling a gap between beam dumps and colliders.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper studies two simplified hidden-sector models that could produce 'double bang' events in IceCube. In the neutrino-portal scenario, an atmospheric neutrino scatters inside the detector to produce a heavy neutral lepton N via mixing |U_Nl|^2; N decays promptly to a long-lived scalar sigma (the LHSP), whose delayed decay to Standard Model states produces a second cascade. In the hypercharge-portal scenario, an atmospheric muon scatters outside the detector to produce a dark photon Z', which decays to a pair of long-lived fermions psi and psibar; if both decay inside the detector, two cascades result. The paper computes production cross sections, decay widths, branching ratios, and geometric and trigger efficiencies, and presents fourteen-year N_evt=1 reach contours for E_min=100 GeV and L_min=100 m cuts, claiming that IceCube can significantly improve current sensitivity for hidden-sector masses from about 1 GeV to about 20 GeV. It also derives constraints from CKM unitarity, BaBar, and LHC displaced-vertex searches.

Significance. If the projection is robust, the paper would show that neutrino telescopes can probe a class of non-minimal hidden sectors, namely those with a long-lived LHSP, in a mass range where collider and beam-dump constraints are weak, and it would provide concrete benchmark models and calculational templates. The paper's strengths are its detailed treatment of hadronic and partonic decay widths, explicit use of public fluxes and PDFs, transparent Monte Carlo for DOM efficiency, and careful rescaling of LHC displaced-vertex limits. The main weakness is not in the particle-physics derivation but in the experimental inputs: the dominant background rate rests on a single unpublished thesis value, and the two-cascade trigger is assumed rather than demonstrated. These inputs are load-bearing for the central claim, so the reach plots should be treated as conditional until they are hardened.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 2.3] The dominant Standard Model background is estimated as N_bkg = N0^2 * (Delta_t/T) with N0 = 6.5e4 yr^-1 taken from the unpublished thesis Ref. [42]. Because the projected reach in Figs. 9 and 16 is essentially a zero-background sensitivity (N_evt = 1 over fourteen years), even a modest change in N0 has a large effect: since N_bkg scales as N0^2, an upward factor of about 2.3 in N0 would already produce an expected background of order one event over the fourteen-year exposure. The paper should either derive N0 from a published, reproducible source, or quantify the uncertainty in N0 and show how the reach changes for a conservative upward shift.
  2. [Section 4] The conclusion states 'We assume that a suitable trigger can be developed for such events.' This trigger is load-bearing: the signal requires recording two cascades separated by at least 100 m and within roughly 100 microseconds, but Appendix B only simulates single-cascade SMT4 detection efficiency for a 100 GeV cascade. No existing IceCube trigger is identified for this two-cascade topology. The authors should either demonstrate that such a trigger is feasible, or present the sensitivity projections as explicitly conditional on a new trigger.
  3. [Section 4] The paper explicitly declines to estimate instrumental backgrounds, saying 'Apart from possible instrumental backgrounds, which we do not attempt to estimate.' Since the search is designed to have essentially zero Standard Model background, detector-related backgrounds, such as coincident noise hits, afterpulses, or badly reconstructed muon tracks, could directly affect the fourteen-year sensitivity. The authors should provide at least a qualitative estimate, or cite IceCube analyses of double-cascade events that address these backgrounds, so that the claim of negligible background is supported.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section 3.4] The sentence 'the production cross section for this process scales as sigma_prod ~ epsilon^2 x 10^5 pb in the mass range of .' is incomplete; please specify the mass range.
  2. [Section 2.2] The text 'We employ the proton pdfs from nCTEQ15' is confusing because nCTEQ15 is a nuclear PDF set; please clarify whether proton or nuclear PDFs are used and justify the choice for an oxygen-dominated target.
  3. [Sections 2.3 and 3.3] The statistical meaning of the N_evt=1 contours should be stated explicitly; if they are meant as discovery sensitivities rather than exclusion limits, the comparison with the 95% CL exclusion contours shown in Figs. 9 and 16 should be discussed.
  4. [Section 2.3] The choice Delta_t = 100 microseconds for the coincidence window is motivated by the SMT trigger buffer, but the signal itself has Delta_t_sig ~ 3 microseconds; please confirm that the 100 microsecond window does not substantially increase the single-cascade background beyond the quoted N0-based estimate.
  5. [Appendix B] The detection-efficiency Monte Carlo treats cascades as point sources; for the two-cascade topology it would be helpful to state how the efficiency of the coincidence trigger on two separated cascades is obtained from the single-cascade efficiency.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: reach contours are derived from external fluxes, PDFs, detector response, and published limits; the zero-background assumption is fragile but is an external input, not a fitted parameter.

full rationale

The derivation chain is self-contained against external inputs. The double-bang rate R_DB in Eqs. (2.14) and (3.6) is computed as the detector nucleon number times the integral of an external flux (Honda et al. [46]; muon parametrization [61]) with scattering cross sections built from nCTEQ15 PDFs [45], model decay widths obtained with MadGraph and the hadronic matrix elements of Ref. [47], and a geometric and trigger efficiency from the paper's own Monte Carlo (Eqs. (2.15)-(2.16), Appendix B). No parameter is fitted to the target signal and then renamed a prediction; the N_evt=1 contours in Figs. 9 and 16 are derived from the model, not imposed. The one assumption that shapes the reach is the claim of less than one background event in fourteen years, which rests on the single-hadronic-cascade rate N0=6.5e4 per year taken from the unpublished thesis Ref. [42] and on a new two-cascade trigger that the paper explicitly does not develop ('We assume that a suitable trigger can be developed for such events. Apart from possible instrumental backgrounds, which we do not attempt to estimate.'). This is a fragility of the projection rather than a circularity: N0 is an external input, not a fitted parameter, and no equation of the paper reduces to its own output by construction. Self-citations by the authors (Refs. [1], [21]-[23]) appear only in the introductory motivation (twin Higgs, cogenesis, staus in neutrino telescopes) and are not load-bearing in any rate calculation. The constraint recasting in Section 2.4 rescales external ATLAS, CMS, and BaBar limits by the model's own branching ratio Eq. (2.17), which is standard reinterpretation, not circular reasoning. The overall score of 1 reflects only the presence of minor, non-load-bearing self-citations, with the central derivation independent.

Assumptions & free parameters 11 free parameters · 7 assumptions · 5 invented entities

The models introduce a small number of new fields and parameters. The reach projections depend on standard inputs (PDFs, fluxes) and several hand-chosen analysis choices (cuts, benchmarks, simulation volume). No parameter is fitted to the target signal; the results are predictions for future search.

free parameters (11)
  • m_N (neutrino portal singlet fermion mass) = scanned 1-20 GeV
    Mass of the hidden neutrino; reach contours are shown in the (m_N, |U_Nℓ|²) plane.
  • |U_Nℓ|² (active-sterile mixing) = scanned
    Controls production and decay widths; scanned down to 10^-4 to 10^-3.
  • y (N-σ Yukawa coupling) = 0.25, 0.5, 0.75
    Sets σ branching ratios and lifetimes; benchmarks used in figures.
  • m_σ/m_N (mass ratio) = 0.6, 0.8
    Benchmark ratios for the scalar LHSP mass.
  • m_ν (light neutrino mass) = 0.01 eV
    Input for the invisible σ→νν decay width in Eq. (2.12).
  • m_Z' (hypercharge portal dark photon mass) = scanned 1-10 GeV
    Mass of the new U(1)_D gauge boson; reach contours in ϵ vs m_Z'.
  • ϵ (kinetic mixing) = scanned
    Coupling of the dark photon to SM fermions; the projected sensitivity is in ϵ.
  • g_D (dark gauge coupling) = 0.1 (BP1), 1.0 (BP2)
    Hidden sector gauge coupling; benchmark values.
  • Mass ratios m_ψ/m_Z'=1/4, m_χ/m_Z'=1/6, m/m_Z'=1/200 or 1/40 = BP1: 1/200, BP2: 1/40
    Benchmark mass spectra for the dark fermions.
  • Analysis cuts E_min, L_min = E_min=100 GeV, L_min=100 m
    Hand-chosen to suppress backgrounds; directly shape the projected reach.
  • Simulation volume factor f_s = 1.25
    Scaling of the production volume for muon-induced events; chosen where the event rate saturates.
assumptions (7)
  • domain assumption Deep inelastic scattering factorization and nCTEQ15 PDFs
    Used to compute neutrino-nucleon and muon-nucleon production cross sections (Eq. 2.8, Section 2.2).
  • domain assumption Atmospheric neutrino flux model (Honda et al.) and muon flux parametrization (Becherini et al.)
    Inputs to the event rate integrals (Eqs. 2.14 and 3.6).
  • domain assumption IceCube approximated as a uniform cube; SMT4 trigger modeled as ≥1 photon in 4 DOMs
    Used in geometric and trigger efficiency Monte Carlo (Section 2.3, Appendix B).
  • domain assumption Background rate N0 = 6.5e4 yr^-1 from Ref. [42], an unpublished thesis
    The extrapolated background of 10^-2 yr^-1 depends on this external number.
  • ad hoc to paper A suitable trigger for two separated 100 GeV cascades can be developed
    Stated in the Conclusion; without it the signal is not observable.
  • domain assumption Low-energy hadronic decays follow the matrix elements of Ref. [47], matched to parton level
    Used for σ and ψ decay widths below ~1 GeV (Appendix A).
  • domain assumption The simplified hidden sectors contain no other light degrees of freedom
    Additional states could open new decay channels and alter the double-bang signature.
invented entities (5)
  • N (Dirac singlet fermion)
    purpose: Mediates neutrino portal; produced in neutrino DIS and decays to σ+ν
    A new heavy neutral lepton that mixes with SM neutrinos; no direct detection outside this model.
  • σ (scalar LHSP)
    purpose: Long-lived hidden scalar that decays to SM particles, producing the second cascade
    A new scalar with helicity-suppressed decays; no direct evidence.
  • Z' (dark photon)
    purpose: Mediates hypercharge portal; produced in muon-nucleon scattering, decays to ψψbar
    A new U(1)_D gauge boson kinetically mixed with hypercharge; no direct evidence.
  • ψ (heavy dark fermion)
    purpose: Produces one of the two cascades when it decays to χ + SM
    A new fermion charged under U(1)_D; no direct evidence.
  • χ (light dark fermion, LHSP)
    purpose: Stable or long-lived daughter of ψ; escapes or decays invisibly
    A new neutral fermion; no direct evidence.

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  author       = {Pith},
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We explore the possibility of directly detecting light, long-lived hidden sector particles at the IceCube neutrino telescope. Such particles frequently arise in non-minimal hidden sectors that couple to the Standard Model through portal operators. We consider two distinct scenarios. In the first scenario, which arises from a neutrino portal interaction, a hidden sector particle is produced inside the detector by the collision of an energetic neutrino with a nucleon, giving rise to a visible cascade. This new state then decays into a hidden sector daughter, which can naturally be long-lived. The eventual decay of the daughter particle back to Standard Model states gives rise to a second cascade inside the detector. This scenario therefore gives rise to a characteristic "double bang" signal arising from the two distinct cascades. In the second scenario, which arises from a hypercharge portal interaction, a hidden sector particle is produced outside the detector by the collision of an atmospheric muon with a nucleon. This new state promptly decays into a pair of hidden sector daughters that are long-lived. If both daughters decay into Standard Model states inside the detector, we again obtain a double-bang signal from the two distinct cascades. We explore the reach of IceCube for these two scenarios and show that it has the potential to significantly improve the sensitivity to hidden sector models in the mass range from about a GeV to about 20 GeV.

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