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The 3.5 keV X-ray line signal from decaying moduli with low cutoff scale

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-07-15 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

The recent unidentified 3.5 keV X-ray line signal can be explained by decaying moduli dark matter with a cutoff scale one order of magnitude smaller than the Planck scale. We show that such modulus field with the low cutoff scale follows a time-dependent potential minimum and its abundance is reduced by the adiabatic suppression mechanism. As a result the modulus abundance can naturally be consistent with the observed dark matter abundance without any fine-tuning of the initial oscillation amplitude.

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@article{arxiv.1403.1733,
  title  = {The 3.5 keV X-ray line signal from decaying moduli with low cutoff scale},
  author = {Kazunori Nakayama and Fuminobu Takahashi and Tsutomu T. Yanagida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.1733},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages