Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1853139 Physics Letters B 2014 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

Light fermionic/scalar dark matter (DM) (mDM≈8 GeVmDM≈8 GeV) neutral under the standard model can be responsible for the CDMS and CoGeNT signals, and the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray excesses. In order to explain them in a relatively simple framework, we have explored various DM annihilation and scattering processes, discussing important phenomenological constraints coming from particle physics. Assuming that the two independent observations have a common DM origin and the processes arise through a common mediator, DM should annihilate into tau/anti-tau lepton pairs through an s-channel, and scatter with nuclei through a t-channel process. To avoid the p  -wave suppression, a new Higgs-like scalar field with a mass of O(1) TeVO(1) TeV is necessary as a common mediator of both the processes. We propose a supersymmetric model realizing the scenario.

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