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Confronting Dirac Fermionic Dark Matter with Recent Data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-12-20 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study Dirac fermionic dark matter (DM, χ0\chi^0) and confront it with recent data. To evade the stringent direct search limits from PandaX-II, XENON1T and LUX experiments, the quantum numbers of the Dirac DM are taken to be I3=Y=0I_3=Y=0 to remove the tree-level ZZ-exchange diagram. Loop amplitudes can contribute to the elastic scattering cross section. We find that there are cancellations in the one-loop diagrams, which largely reduce the cross section and make the Dirac DM viable in the direct search. For a generic isospin II, we survey the Dirac DM mass constrained by the latest results of PandaX-II, XENON1T and LUX experiments, the observed DM relic density, and the H.E.S.S. and the Fermi-LAT astrophysical observations. Sommerfeld enhancement effects on DM annihilation processes are investigated. We find that the cross section of χ0χˉ0\chi^0\bar\chi^0 annihilating to the standard model (SM) gauge bosons are in general significantly enhanced, and the Fermi-LAT, the H.E.S.S. upper limits on σv(W+W,γγ)\langle\sigma v\rangle({W^+W^-,\gamma\gamma}) and the observed relic density become serious constraints on the Dirac DM mass. The I<4I<4 cases are ruled out and for I4I\geq 4, the lower bound on Dirac DM mass are forced to be \gtrsim 60 TeV. The elastic scattering cross section for mχm_\chi of few tens TeV with a generic II is found to be σSII2(I+1)2×7×1049\sigma^{SI}\simeq I^2(I+1)^2\times7\times10^{-49}~cm2^2. The predicted σ(χ0χˉ0Z0Z0,Z0γ,γγ)v\langle\sigma (\chi^0\bar\chi^0\to Z^0Z^0, Z^0\gamma, \gamma\gamma)v\rangle and σSI\sigma^{SI} are sizable and they will be useful to search for DM in astrophysical observation and in direct search in near future.

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@article{arxiv.1708.08624,
  title  = {Confronting Dirac Fermionic Dark Matter with Recent Data},
  author = {Chun-Khiang Chua and Gwo-Guang Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.08624},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

40 pages, 11 figures, references added

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