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Gamma-ray line from electroweakly interacting non-abelian spin-1 dark matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-10-29 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We study gamma-ray line signatures from electroweakly interacting non-abelian spin-1 dark matter (DM). In this model, Z2Z_2-odd spin-1 particles including a DM candidate have the SU(2)L_L triplet-like features, and the Sommerfeld enhancement is relevant in the annihilation processes. We derive the annihilation cross sections contributing to the photon emission and compare with the SU(2)L_L triplet fermions, such as Wino DM in the supersymmetric Standard Model. The Sommerfeld enhancement factor is approximately the same in both systems, while our spin-1 DM predicts the larger annihilation cross sections into γγ/Zγ\gamma \gamma/ Z \gamma modes than those of the Wino by 389\frac{38}{9}. This is because a spin-1 DM pair forms not only J=0J=0 but also J=2J=2 partial wave states where JJ denotes the total spin angular momentum. Our spin-1 DM also has a new annihilation mode into Z2Z_2-even extra heavy vector and photon, ZγZ' \gamma. For this mode, the photon energy depends on the masses of DM and the heavy vector, and thus we have a chance to probe the mass spectrum. The latest gamma-ray line search in the Galactic Center region gives a strong constraint on our spin-11 DM. We can probe the DM mass for 25.3 \lesssim 25.3~TeV by the Cherenkov Telescope Array experiment even if we assume a conservative DM density profile.

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@article{arxiv.2107.10029,
  title  = {Gamma-ray line from electroweakly interacting non-abelian spin-1 dark matter},
  author = {Tomohiro Abe and Motoko Fujiwara and Junji Hisano and Kohei Matsushita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.10029},
  year   = {2021}
}

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31 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, the version published in JHEP

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