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Experimental signatures of a new dark matter WIMP

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-08-02 v2

Abstract

The WIMP proposed here yields the observed abundance of dark matter, and is consistent with the current limits from direct detection, indirect detection, and collider experiments, if its mass is 72\sim 72 GeV/c2c^2. It is also consistent with analyses of the gamma rays observed by Fermi-LAT from the Galactic center (and other sources), and of the antiprotons observed by AMS-02, in which the excesses are attributed to dark matter annihilation. These successes are shared by the inert doublet model (IDM), but the phenomenology is very different: The dark matter candidate of the IDM has first-order gauge couplings to other new particles, whereas the present candidate does not. In addition to indirect detection through annihilation products, it appears that the present particle can be observed in the most sensitive direct-detection and collider experiments currently being planned.

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@article{arxiv.2104.11715,
  title  = {Experimental signatures of a new dark matter WIMP},
  author = {Reagan Thornberry and Maxwell Throm and Gabriel Frohaug and John Killough and Dylan Blend and Michael Erickson and Brian Sun and Brett Bays and Roland E. Allen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.11715},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

7 pages, to be published in EPL (Europhysics Letters)