Abstract
We consider axion-mediated dark matter models motivated by Fermi gamma ray line at 130 GeV, where an axion-like scalar couples to a singlet Dirac fermion dark matter (DM) so its anomaly interactions with electroweak gauge bosons allow the DM to annihilate into monochromatic photon(s). In these models, extra vector-like leptons generate the necessary anomaly interactions for the axion and can also modify the Higgs-to-diphoton rate by their Yukawa couplings to the SM Higgs boson. We can distinguish models by the branching fraction of the DM annihilation into a photon pair, favoring the model with a triplet fermion. From the condition that the lighter charged extra lepton must be heavier than dark matter for no tree-level DM annihilations, we also show that the ratio of Higgs-to-diphoton rate to the SM value is constrained by vacuum stability to 1.4 (1.5) for the cutoff scale of 10 (1) TeV.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 37 |
| Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | 2012 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| State | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- Anomalies in Field and String Theories
- Beyond Standard Model
- Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
- Higgs Physics