Volume 364 - European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2019) - Dark Matter
A multicomponent dark matter scenario and the experimental evidence supporting it
R. Allen,* D. Blend, R. Thornberry, A. Arroyo, G. Frohaug, C. LaFontaine
*corresponding author
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Pre-published on: June 10, 2020
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Abstract
We review a dark matter scenario with a number of favorable aspects: (1) all of the well-known successes of supersymmetry are preserved, (2) the parameters can satisfy naturalness, (3) the addition of an extended Higgs sector implies a doubly rich plethora of new particles and new physics to be discovered in the near or foreseeable future, (4) the mass of the dominant dark matter WIMP is $\le 125$ GeV/c$^2$, (5) the gauge couplings of this particle are precisely defined, and (6) naturalness implies that its Higgs-mediated couplings are also comparable to those of a natural neutralino. Recent (and earlier) analyses of the data from Planck, Fermi-LAT, AMS-02, and other experiments indicate that (i) the positron excess at $\sim 800$ GeV or above is not evidence of high-mass dark matter particles (which would have disconfirmed the present theory with a rigorous upper limit of $125$ GeV), (ii) the Galactic center excess of gamma rays observed by Fermi is evidence for dark matter particles with a mass below or near $100$ GeV, (iii) the gamma-ray excess from Omega Centauri is similar evidence of annihilation of such relatively low-mass particles, and (iv) the antiproton excess observed by AMS is again evidence of $\lesssim 100$ GeV dark matter particles. The present scenario, with two stable spin 1/2 WIMPs (a high-mass neutralino and a more abundant Higgson'' with a mass of $\le 125$ GeV/c$^2$) is consistent with these results (as well as all others which have been verified), and it also suggests that detection should be near in a variety of experiments for direct, indirect, and collider detection.
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