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A 750 GeV dark matter messenger at the Galactic Center

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-06-15 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

The first data from the LHC Run-2 have shown a possible excess in diphoton events with invariant mass 750\sim 750 GeV, suggesting the existence of a new resonance which may decay dominantly into dark matter (DM) particles. We show in a simple model that the reported diphoton excess at the LHC is consistent with another photon excess, the 22 GeV excess in cosmic gamma-ray fluxes towards the Galactic Center observed by the Fermi-LAT. Both the excesses can be simultaneously explained by a 60\sim 60 GeV scalar DM particle annihilating dominantly into two gluons with a typical thermal annihilation cross section, which leads to the prediction of a large width to mass ratio Γ/MO(102)\Gamma/M\approx \mathcal{O}(10^{-2}) of the resonance. The upper limit on the dijet search at LHC Run-1 leads to a lowerlower limit on the predicted cross section for DM annihilating into γγ\gamma\gamma final states σvγγO(1030) \mboxcm3\mboxs1\langle\sigma v\rangle_{\gamma\gamma} \gtrsim\mathcal{O}(10^{-30})~\mbox{cm}^{3}\mbox{s}^{-1}. Both the predictions can be tested by the LHC, Fermi-LAT and future experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1512.08992,
  title  = {A 750 GeV dark matter messenger at the Galactic Center},
  author = {Xian-Jun Huang and Wei-Hong Zhang and Yu-Feng Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08992},
  year   = {2016}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in PRD