Gamma-ray line from Nambu-Goldstone dark matter in a scale invariant extension of the Standard Model

Abstract

Abstract: A recently proposed scale invariant extension of the standard model is modified such that it includes a Dark Matter candidate which can annihilate into gamma-rays. For that a non-zero U(1)Y hypercharge Q is assigned to the fermions in a QCD-like hidden sector. The Nambu-Goldstone bosons, that arise due to dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in the hidden sector, are cold Dark Matter candidates, and the extension allows them to annihilate into two photons, producing a γ-ray line spectrum. We find that the γ-ray line energy must be between 0.7 TeV and 0.9 TeV with the velocity-averaged annihilation cross section 10−30 ~ 10−26 cm3/s for Q = 1/3. With a non-zero hypercharge Q, the hidden sector is no longer completely dark and can be directly probed by collider experiments.