Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-07-27
Phys.Rev.D80:083516,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
28 pages, 17 figures; v2. added brief comment, references
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.083516
Numerous experimental anomalies hint at the existence of a dark matter (DM) multiplet chi_i with small mass splittings. We survey the simplest such models which arise from DM in the low representations of a new SU(2) gauge symmetry, whose gauge bosons have a small mass mu < 1 GeV. We identify preferred parameters M_chi ~ 1 TeV, mu ~ 100 MeV, alpha_g ~ 0.04 and the chi chi -> 4e annihilation channel, for explaining PAMELA, Fermi, and INTEGRAL/SPI lepton excesses, while remaining consistent with constraints from relic density, diffuse gamma rays and the CMB. This consistency is strengthened if DM annihilations occur mainly in subhalos, while excitations (relevant to the excited DM proposal to explain the 511 keV excess) occur in the galactic center (GC), due to higher velocity dispersions in the GC, induced by baryons. We derive new constraints and predictions which are generic to these models. Notably, decays of excited DM states chi' -> chi gamma arise at one loop and could provide a new signal for INTEGRAL/SPI; big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) constraints on the density of dark SU(2) gauge bosons imply a lower bound on the mixing parameter epsilon between the SU(2) gauge bosons and photon. These considerations rule out the possibility of the gauge bosons that decay into e^+e^- being long-lived. We study in detail models of doublet, triplet and quintuplet DM, showing that both normal and inverted mass hierarchies can occur, with mass splittings that can be parametrically smaller, e.g., O(100) keV, than the generic MeV scale of splittings. A systematic treatment of Z_2 symmetry which insures the stability of the intermediate DM state is given for cases with inverted mass hierarchy, of interest for boosting the 511 keV signal from the excited dark matter mechanism.
Chen Fangpei
Cline James M.
Frey Andrew R.
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