25–29 Jul 2016
University of Bergen
Europe/Zurich timezone

Dark Forces in the Sky: signals from Z' and the dark Higgs

25 Jul 2016, 16:30
15m
Egget auditorium in the UiB Student Center (University of Bergen)

Egget auditorium in the UiB Student Center

University of Bergen

Parkveien 1, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Contributed talk Indirect Dark Matter Detection Direct Dark Matter Detection

Speaker

Dr Yi Cai (The University of Melbourne)

Summary

We consider the indirect detection signals for a self-consistent hidden U (1) sector,
containing a fermionic dark matter candidate, dark gauge boson and a Dark Higgs. The
presence of an additional scalar, the Dark Higgs, provides a mass generation mechanism
for the dark sector particles and is required to avoid unitarity violation at high energies.
We find that the inclusion of the additional scalar to the sector opens up a new two-body
channel and allows fermionic dark matter annihilation to be used to probe the
properties of a scalar final state. We examine the phenomenology of the sector with a focus on this new process, and
determine the limits on the model parameter space from Fermi data on Dwarf Spheriodal
Galaxies and other relevant experiments.

Primary author

Dr Yi Cai (The University of Melbourne)

Co-authors

Dr Nicole F. Bell (The University of Melbourne) Ms Rebecca K. Leane (The University of Melbourne)

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