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We consider a singlet Dirac fermion with Peccei-Quinn(PQ) symmetry as dark matter. A singlet complex scalar is introduced to mediate between dark matter and the SM through Higgs portal interaction and electroweak PQ anomalies. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Hyun Min Lee , Myeonghun Park , Wan-Il Park

An analysis of the Fermi gamma ray space telescope data has recently revealed a resolved gamma-ray feature close to the galactic center which is consistent with monochromatic photons at an energy of about 130 GeV. If interpreted in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-17 Masaki Asano , Torsten Bringmann , Gunter Sigl , Martin Vollmann

A recently proposed scale invariant extension of the standard model is modified such that it includes a Dark Matter candidate which can annihilate into gamma-rays. For that a non-zero $U(1)_Y$ hypercharge $Q$ is assigned to the fermions in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Jisuke Kubo , Kher Sham Lim , Manfred Lindner

If the dark matter in the Universe is made of weakly self-interacting particles, they may self-annihilate and emit gamma-rays. We use high resolution numerical simulations to estimate directly the annihilation flux from the central regions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Felix Stoehr , Simon D. M. White , Volker Springel , Giuseppe Tormen , Naoki Yoshida

Tentative evidence of a 3.5 keV X-ray line has been found in the stacked spectra of galaxy clusters, individual clusters, the Andromeda galaxy and the galactic center, leading to speculation that it could be due to decays of metastable dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 James M. Cline , Andrew R. Frey

Photons produced in the annihilations of dark matter particles can be detected by gamma-ray telescopes; this technique of indirect detection serves as a cornerstone of the upcoming assault on the dark matter paradigm. The main obstacle to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 Eric J. Baxter , Scott Dodelson

We point out the possibility to test the simplest scalar dark matter model at gamma-ray telescopes. We discuss the relevant constraints and show the predictions for direct detection, gamma line searches and LHC searches. Since the final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-21 Michael Duerr , Pavel Fileviez Perez , Juri Smirnov

Hidden axions may be coupled to the standard model particles through a kinetic or mass mixing with QCD axion. We study a scenario in which a hidden axion constitutes a part of or the whole of dark matter and decays into photons through the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Tetsutaro Higaki , Naoya Kitajima , Fuminobu Takahashi

We consider a decaying magnetic dark matter explaining the X-ray line at 3.55 keV shown recently from XMM-Newton observations. We introduce two singlet Majorana fermions that have almost degenerate masses and fermion-portal couplings with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-30 Hyun Min Lee

We examine the $X$-ray spectrum from the decay of the dark-matter moduli with mass $\sim {\cal O}(100)$keV, in particular, paying attention to the line spectrum from the moduli trapped in the halo of our galaxy. It is found that with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 T. Asaka , J. Hashiba , M. Kawasaki , T. Yanagida

We consider indirect detection signals of atomic dark matter, with a massive dark photon which mixes kinetically with hypercharge. In significant regions of parameter space, dark matter remains at least partially ionized today, and dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-29 Lauren Pearce , Kalliopi Petraki , Alexander Kusenko

The Standard Model of particle physics can be extended to include sterile (right-handed) neutrinos or axions to solve the dark matter problem. Depending upon the mixing angle between active and sterile neutrinos, the latter have the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 A. Gewering-Peine , D. Horns , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

Recent works of [1402.2301,1402.4119], claiming the detection of extra emission line with energy ~3.5 keV in X-ray spectra of certain clusters of galaxies and nearby Andromeda galaxy, have raised considerable interest in astrophysics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-26 Dmytro Iakubovskyi

We study the morphology of the 511 keV signal that could be produced by exciting dark matter (XDM) in the Milky Way. In this model, collisions between dark matter particles excite the dark matter to a state that can then decay back to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-09 Christopher V. Cappiello , Michael Jafs , Aaron C. Vincent

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-15 Kazunori Nakayama , Fuminobu Takahashi , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

The region surrounding the center of the Milky Way is both astrophysically rich and complex, and is predicted to contain very high densities of dark matter. Utilizing three years of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope (and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-29 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

There is evidence for a 130 GeV gamma-ray line at the Galactic Center in the Fermi Large Area Telescope data. Dark matter candidates that explain this feature should also annihilate to Standard Model particles, resulting in a continuous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Timothy Cohen , Mariangela Lisanti , Tracy R. Slatyer , Jay G. Wacker

It has recently been pointed out that the 511 keV emission line detected by Integral/SPI from the bulge of our galaxy could be explained by annihilations of light Dark Matter particles into e^+ e^-. If such a signature is confirmed, then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-20 C. Boehm , P. Fayet , J. Silk

In the supersymmetric models with low scale supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking where the gravitino mass is around keV, we show that the 3.5 keV $X-$ray lines can be explained naturally through several different mechanisms: (I) A keV scale dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhaofeng Kang , P. Ko , Tianjun Li , Yandong Liu

We consider a simple extension of the Standard Model to consistently explain the observation of a peak in the galactic X-ray spectrum at 3.55 keV and the light neutrino masses along with the baryon asymmetry of the universe. The baryon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Sin Kyu Kang , Ayon Patra