2014

Self-Interacting Dark Matter and X-ray Lines

by Kim Boddy

Pacific/Honolulu
WAT 112

WAT 112

Description
We consider a simple supersymmetric hidden sector: pure SU(N) gauge theory. Dark matter is made up of hidden glueballinos and hidden glueballs with mass near the confinement scale. For glueballino mass ~ TeV and glueball mass ~ 100 MeV, the glueballinos freeze out with the correct relic density and self-interact through glueball exchange to resolve small-scale structure puzzles. An immediate consequence is that the glueballino spectrum has a hyperfine splitting. We show that the radiative decays of the excited state can explain the observed 3.5 keV X-ray line signal from clusters of galaxies, Andromeda, and the Milky Way.