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Probing multicomponent FIMP scenarios with gamma-ray telescopes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-03-18 v1

Abstract

We consider a scenario where the dark sector includes two Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMPs), with couplings to the Standard Model particles that allow their production in the Early Universe via thermal freeze-in. These couplings generically lead to the decay of the heavier dark matter component into the lighter, possibly leading to observable signals of the otherwise elusive FIMPs. Concretely, we argue that the loop induced decay ψ2ψ1γ\psi_2\rightarrow\psi_1\gamma for fermionic FIMPs, or ϕ2ϕ1γγ\phi_2\rightarrow\phi_1\gamma\gamma for scalar FIMPs, could have detectable rates for model parameters compatible with the observed dark matter abundance.

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@article{arxiv.1912.09458,
  title  = {Probing multicomponent FIMP scenarios with gamma-ray telescopes},
  author = {Johannes Herms and Alejandro Ibarra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09458},
  year   = {2020}
}

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14 pages, 3 figures

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