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Description
I will discuss the potential neutrino telescopes will have for probing dark matter particle models. I will present recent work with the TRIDENT collaboration where we project the experiments future sensitivity to annihilating DM. We project that TRIDENT is on track to reach annihilation rates below the thermal freeze-out benchmark for dark matter masses between 1-100 TeV. However, I will highlight that a previously overlooked background of Galactic neutrinos could limit our sensitivity and potentially mimic the dark matter signal. These neutrinos are produced from interactions between hadronic cosmic rays and interstellar gas. I will comment on a particle physics model that would be uniquely probed by TRIDENT and current work related to dark matter decay and solar capture.
