Published September 3, 2019 | Version v1
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Return of the WIMP: Missing energy signals and the Galactic Center excess

  • 1. University of Chicago
  • 2. Wayne State University

Description

In a recent work, we emphasized that an excess in trilepton events plus missing energy observed by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC could be interpreted as a signal of low-energy supersymmetry. In such a scenario the lightest neutralino mass is approximately $m_χ≃60$ $GeV$ and the direct dark matter detection cross section is naturally below the current bound. In this work we present simple extensions of this scenario that lead to an explanation of the gamma-ray excess at the center of the Galaxy observed by Fermi-LAT, as well as the antiproton excess observed by AMS-02. These extensions include the addition of a small $CP$-violating phase in the neutralino sector or the addition of a light $CP$-odd Higgs scalar. Our study is of special relevance in view of a recent analysis that casts doubt on the previously accepted preference for millisecond pulsars as the origin of the Galactic Center excess.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.100.055002
Other
oai:uchicago.tind.io:12206

Funding

Wayne State University
U.S. Department of Energy
DESC0007983
U.S. Department of Energy
DE-AC02-07CH11359
Office of Science, SC
U.S. Department of Energy
DE-FG02-13ER41958
Fermi Research Alliance
U.S. Department of Energy
DE-AC02-06CH11357
High Energy Physics

UChicago Information

Division(s)
Physical Sciences Division
Department(s)
Enrico Fermi Institute
Center(s) or Institute(s)
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics