Minimal Dark Matter: model and results

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2009-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/0903.3381v3

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

28 pages, 9 figures. Invited contribution to the NJP Focus Issue on 'Dark Matter and Particle Physics'. v2: Added comments on

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We recap the main features of Minimal Dark Matter (MDM) and assess its status in the light of the recent experimental data. The theory selects an electroweak 5-plet with hypercharge Y=0 as a fully successful DM candidate, automatically stable against decay and with no free parameters: DM is a fermion with a 9.6 TeV mass. The direct detection cross-section, predicted to be 10^-44 cm2, is within reach of next-generation experiments. DM is accompanied by a charged fermion 166 MeV heavier: we discuss how it might manifest. Thanks to an electroweak Sommerfeld enhancement of more than 2 orders of magnitude, DM annihilations into W+W- give, in presence of a modest astrophysical boost factor, a positron flux compatible with the PAMELA excess (but not with the ATIC hint for a peak: MDM instead predicts a quasi-power-law spectrum), a anti-proton flux concentrated at energies above 100 GeV, and to photon fluxes comparable with present limits, depending on the DM density profile.

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