Axion-mediated dark matter and Higgs diphoton signal

Hyun Min Lee, Myeonghun Park, Wan Ii Park

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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 languageEnglish
Article number37
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2012
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Anomalies in Field and String Theories
  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
  • Higgs Physics

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