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Light spin-1/2 or spin-0 Dark Matter particles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-29 v1

Abstract

We recall and precise how light spin-0 particles could be acceptable Dark Matter candidates, and extend this analysis to spin-1/2 particles. We evaluate the (rather large) annihilation cross sections required, and show how they may be induced by a new light neutral spin-1 boson U. If this one is vectorially coupled to matter particles, the (spin-1/2 or spin-0) Dark Matter annihilation cross section into e+e- automatically includes a v_dm^2 suppression factor at threshold, as desirable to avoid an excessive production of gamma rays from residual Dark Matter annihilations. We also relate Dark Matter annihilations with production cross sections in e+e- scatterings. Annihilation cross sections of spin-1/2 and spin-0 Dark Matter particles are given by exactly the same expressions. Just as for spin-0, light spin-1/2 Dark Matter particles annihilating into e+e- could be responsible for the bright 511 keV gamma ray line observed by INTEGRAL from the galactic bulge.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0403226,
  title  = {Light spin-1/2 or spin-0 Dark Matter particles},
  author = {P. Fayet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0403226},
  year   = {2009}
}

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