Upgoing ANITA events as evidence of the CPT symmetric universe

• Main Authors: Anchordoqui, Luis A., Barger, Vernon, Learned, John G., Marfatia, Danny, Weiler, Thomas J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2018
• Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology hep-ph; High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE; FOS Physical sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1803.11554; https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11554

We explain the two upgoing ultra-high energy shower events observed by ANITA as arising from the decay in the Earth's interior of the quasi-stable dark matter candidate in the CPT symmetric universe. The dark matter particle is a 480 PeV right-handed neutrino that decays into a Higgs boson and a light Majorana neutrino. The latter interacts in the Earth's crust to produce a tau lepton that in turn initiates an atmospheric upgoing shower. The fact that both events emerge at the same angle from the Antarctic ice-cap suggests an atypical dark matter density distribution in the Earth. : 5 pages revtex