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Pico-charged particles explaining 511 keV line and XENON1T signal

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-07-09 v2

Abstract

There is a robust signal for a 511 keV photon line from the galactic center which may originate from dark matter particles with masses of a few MeV. To avoid the bounds from delayed recombination and from the absence of the line from dwarf galaxies, in 2017, we have proposed a model in which dark matter first decays into a pair of intermediate pico-charged particles CCˉC\bar{C} with a lifetime much larger than the age of the universe. The galactic magnetic field accumulates the relativistic CCˉC\bar{C} that eventually annihilate, producing the ee+e^-e^+ pair that give rise to the 511 keV line. The relativistic pico-charged CC particles can scatter on the electrons inside the direct dark matter search detectors imparting a recoil energy of ErE_r \sim~keV. We show that this model can account for the electron recoil excess recently reported by the XENON1T experiment. Moreover, we show that the XENON1T electron recoil data sets the most stringent bound on the lifetime of the dark matter within this model.

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@article{arxiv.2007.14421,
  title  = {Pico-charged particles explaining 511 keV line and XENON1T signal},
  author = {Yasaman Farzan and Meshkat Rajaee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.14421},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages, 3 figures