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The interpretation for Galactic Center Excess and Electroweak Phase Transition in the NMSSM

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-07-15 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

The gamma-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT in the Galactic Center can be interpreted by the dark matter annihilation to bbˉb\bar{b} via a light pseudoscalar in the NMSSM. It is interesting to note that the corresponding singlet scalar is useful to achieve a strongly first order phase transition required by the electroweak baryogenesis. In this paper, we investigate the possibility that the NMSSM model can simultaneously accommodate these two issues. The phase transition strength can be characterized by the vacua energy gap at zero temperature and be sufficiently enhanced by the tree-level effect in the NMSSM. We find that the annihilation of Singlino/Higgsino DM particles occurring close to the light pseudoscalar resonance is favored by the galactic center excess and the observed DM relic density, and a resulting small κ/λ\kappa/\lambda and a negative AκA_\kappa can also lead to a successful strongly first order electroweak phase transition.

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@article{arxiv.1503.03749,
  title  = {The interpretation for Galactic Center Excess and Electroweak Phase Transition in the NMSSM},
  author = {Xiao-Jun Bi and Ligong Bian and Weicong Huang and Jing Shu and Peng-Fei Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.03749},
  year   = {2015}
}

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18 pages,3 figures, comments are welcomed