Dark matter, shared asymmetries, and galactic gamma ray signals

We introduce a novel dark matter scenario where the visible sector and the dark sector share a common asymmetry. The two sectors are connected through an unstable mediator with baryon number one, allowing the standard model baryon asymmetry to be shared with dark matter via semi-annihilation. The pr...

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Main Authors: Fonseca, Nayara (Contributor), Necib, Lina (Contributor), Thaler, Jesse (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing/SISSA, 2016-03-04T18:35:12Z.
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520 |a We introduce a novel dark matter scenario where the visible sector and the dark sector share a common asymmetry. The two sectors are connected through an unstable mediator with baryon number one, allowing the standard model baryon asymmetry to be shared with dark matter via semi-annihilation. The present-day abundance of dark matter is then set by thermal freeze-out of this semi-annihilation process, yielding an asymmetric version of the WIMP miracle as well as promising signals for indirect detection experiments. As a proof of concept, we find a viable region of parameter space consistent with the observed Fermi excess of GeV gamma rays from the galactic center. 
520 |a United States. Dept. of Energy (Cooperative Research Agreement DE-SC-00012567) 
520 |a Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo 
520 |a Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas (Brazil) 
520 |a United States. Dept. of Energy (Early Career Research Program DE-SC0006389) 
520 |a Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Sloan Research Fellowship) 
655 7 |a Article 
773 |t Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics