A Unified Dark Matter Model in sUED

TL;DR

This paper introduces a unified dark matter model within a 5D sUED framework, explaining cosmic ray observations and detection experiments through a singlet fermion and scalar, with implications for dark matter mass and interactions.

Contribution

It presents a novel dark matter model in sUED with singlet fields that explains multiple astrophysical observations and detection results simultaneously.

Findings

Dark matter mass determined to be 1.0-1.6 TeV from cosmic ray data.

Scalar field below 1 GeV enhances annihilation via Sommerfeld effect.

Model satisfies relic abundance and detection constraints.

Abstract

We propose a dark matter model with standard model singlet extension of the universal extra dimension model (sUED) to explain the recent observations of ATIC, PPB-BETS, PAMELA and DAMA. Other than the standard model fields propagating in the bulk of a 5-dimensional space, one fermion field and one scalar field are introduced and both are standard model singlets. The zero mode of the new fermion is identified as the right-handed neutrino, while its first KK mode is the lightest KK-odd particle and the dark matter candidate. The cosmic ray spectra from ATIC and PPB-BETS determine the dark matter particle mass and hence the fifth dimension compactification scale to be 1.0-1.6 TeV. The zero mode of the singlet scalar field with a mass below 1 GeV provides an attractive force between dark matter particles, which allows a Sommerfeld enhancement to boost the annihilation cross section in the Galactic halo to explain the PAMELA data. The DAMA annual modulation results are explained by coupling the same scalar field to the electron via a higher-dimensional operator. We analyze the model parameter space that can satisfy the dark matter relic abundance and accommodate all the dark matter detection experiments. We also consider constraints from the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background, which can be satisfied if the dark matter particle and the first KK-mode of the scalar field have highly degenerate masses.