Experimental signatures of muons originating in dark matter annihilations occurring in the Earth's crust

Some dark matter models of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) suggest that these particles can interact with the Earth, losing enough kinetic energy such that they become gravitationally bound. Over time, the Earth could accumulate enough dark matter and anti-dark matter that annihilations to dark photons occur at some rate. These dark photons could then mix with our standard model photons and then couple to fermions, specifically muons for the purposes of this study. We explore what the energy spectrum of these muons coming up from the Earth would be and how this spectrum might differ from a background of muons originating in galactic neutrino interactions. We have built computational tools to simulate the energy loss as these muons travel through the Earth's crust and we use these tools to explore whether or not a signal could be distinguished from background, given a detector like CMS configured to look for upward-traveling muons. The current status of this study will be presented.