Published December 12, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

A simplified 2HDM with a scalar dark matter and the galactic center gamma-ray excess

Description

Due to the strong constraint from the LUX experiment, the scalar portal dark matter cannot generally explain a gamma-ray excess in the galactic center by the annihilation of dark matter to bb¯. With the motivation of eliminating the tension, we add a scalar dark matter to the aligned two-Higgs-doublet model, and focus on a simplified scenario, which has two main characteristics: (i) The heavy CP-even Higgs is the discovered 125 GeV Higgs boson, which has the same couplings to the gauge bosons and fermions as the SM Higgs. (ii) Only the light CP-even Higgs mediates the dark matter interactions with SM particles, which have no couplings to WW and ZZ, but have the independent couplings to the up-type quarks, down-type quarks and charged leptons. We find that the tension between 〈σv〉SS→bb¯ and the constraint from LUX induced by the scalar portal dark matter can go away for the isospin-violating dark matter–nucleon coupling with −1.0n/fp<0.7, and the constraints from the Higgs search experiments and the relic density of Planck are also satisfied

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.016

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2014.11.016;
arXiv
arXiv:1406.3598v3;
PII
S0370-2693(14)00818-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
739
Journal Page Range
p. 416-420
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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