A 750 GeV dark matter messenger at the Galactic Center

TL;DR

This paper proposes a simple model linking a potential 750 GeV resonance observed at the LHC with a 2 GeV gamma-ray excess from the Galactic Center, suggesting a 60 GeV scalar dark matter particle that explains both phenomena.

Contribution

It introduces a unified model that explains both the LHC diphoton excess and the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess with a single dark matter candidate and predicts testable signals for future experiments.

Findings

The model is consistent with the observed diphoton excess at 750 GeV.

It explains the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess with a 60 GeV scalar dark matter particle.

Predicted cross sections are within reach of current and future experiments.

Abstract

The first data from the LHC Run-2 have shown a possible excess in diphoton events with invariant mass $\sim 750$ GeV, suggesting the existence of a new resonance which may decay dominantly into dark matter (DM) particles. We show in a simple model that the reported diphoton excess at the LHC is consistent with another photon excess, the $2$ GeV excess in cosmic gamma-ray fluxes towards the Galactic Center observed by the Fermi-LAT. Both the excesses can be simultaneously explained by a $\sim 60$ GeV scalar DM particle annihilating dominantly into two gluons with a typical thermal annihilation cross section, which leads to the prediction of a large width to mass ratio $\Gamma/M\approx \mathcal{O}(10^{-2})$ of the resonance. The upper limit on the dijet search at LHC Run-1 leads to a $lower$ limit on the predicted cross section for DM annihilating into $\gamma\gamma$ final states $\langle\sigma v\rangle_{\gamma\gamma} \gtrsim\mathcal{O}(10^{-30})~\mbox{cm}^{3}\mbox{s}^{-1}$. Both the predictions can be tested by the LHC, Fermi-LAT and future experiments.