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511 keV Gamma Ray from Moduli Decay in the Galactic Bulge

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

We show that the e++ee^++e^- decay of a light scalar boson of mass 1-10 MeV may account for the fluxes of 511 keV gamma ray observed by SPI/INTEGRAL. We argue that candidates of such a light scalar boson is one of the string moduli or a scalar partner of the axion in a supersymmetric theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0505167,
  title  = {511 keV Gamma Ray from Moduli Decay in the Galactic Bulge},
  author = {M. Kawasaki and T. Yanagida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0505167},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, no figure, we have added an appendix to describe the dilution of the moduli by the thermal inflation and some minor corrections