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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 mXm_X and hidden glueballs with mass near the confinement scale Λ\Lambda. For mX1TeVm_X \sim 1\,\text{TeV} and Λ100MeV\Lambda \sim 100\,\text{MeV}, 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 Λ2/mX10keV\Lambda^2 / m_X \sim 10\,\text{keV}. 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}
}

Comments

v1: 6 pages, 2 figures; v2: added references, published version; v3: note added

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