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Dark Higgs Channel for FERMI GeV $\gamma$-ray Excess

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-02-08 v2

Abstract

Dark Higgs is very generic in dark matter models where DM is stabilized by some spontaneously broken dark gauge symmetries. Motivated by the FERMI observation of \simGeV scale γ\gamma-ray excess from the galactic center (GC), we investigate a scenario that a pair of dark matter XX annihilates into a pair of dark Higgs H2H_2, which subsequently decays into standard model particles through its mixing with SM Higgs boson. Besides the two-body decay of H2H_2, we also include multibody decay channels of the dark Higgs. We find that the best-fit point is around MX95.0M_X\simeq 95.0GeV, MH286.7M_{H_2}\simeq 86.7GeV, σv4.0×1026cm3/s\langle \sigma v\rangle\simeq 4.0\times 10^{-26}\textrm{cm}^3\textrm{/s} and gives a p-value 0.40\simeq 0.40. Implication of this result is described in the context of dark matter models with dark gauge symmetries. Since such a dark Higgs boson is very difficult to produce at colliders, indirect DM detections of cosmic γ\gamma-rays could be an important probe of dark sectors, complementary to collider searches.

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@article{arxiv.1504.03908,
  title  = {Dark Higgs Channel for FERMI GeV $\gamma$-ray Excess},
  author = {P. Ko and Yong Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.03908},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, JCAP accepted version