SIMPle Dark Matter: Self-Interactions and keV Lines
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-07-13 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
We consider a simple supersymmetric hidden sector: pure SU(N) gauge theory. Dark matter is made up of hidden glueballinos with mass and hidden glueballs with mass near the confinement scale . For and , the glueballinos freeze out with the correct relic density and self-interact through glueball exchange to resolve small-scale structure puzzles. An immediate consequence is that the glueballino spectrum has a hyperfine splitting of order . We show that the radiative decays of the excited state can explain the observed 3.5 keV X-ray line signal from clusters of galaxies, Andromeda, and the Milky Way.
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@article{arxiv.1408.6532,
title = {SIMPle Dark Matter: Self-Interactions and keV Lines},
author = {Kimberly K. Boddy and Jonathan L. Feng and Manoj Kaplinghat and Yael Shadmi and Timothy M. P. Tait},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6532},
year = {2015}
}
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v1: 6 pages, 2 figures; v2: added references, published version; v3: note added