Updated Collider and Direct Detection Constraints on Dark Matter Models for the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess
Abstract
Utilizing an exhaustive set of simplified models, we revisit dark matter scenarios potentially capable of generating the observed Galactic Center gamma-ray excess, updating constraints from the LUX and PandaX-II experiments, as well as from the LHC and other colliders. We identify a variety of pseudoscalar mediated models that remain consistent with all constraints. In contrast, dark matter candidates which annihilate through a spin-1 mediator are ruled out by direct detection constraints unless the mass of the mediator is near an annihilation resonance, or the mediator has a purely vector coupling to the dark matter and a purely axial coupling to Standard Model fermions. All scenarios in which the dark matter annihilates through -channel processes are now ruled out by a combination of the constraints from LUX/PandaX-II and the LHC.
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@article{arxiv.1612.06462,
title = {Updated Collider and Direct Detection Constraints on Dark Matter Models for the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess},
author = {Miguel Escudero and Dan Hooper and Samuel J. Witte},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06462},
year = {2017}
}
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v3: Footnote and reference added. v2: Published version, text and citations added. 19 pages, 8 figures