Indirect Detection for Higgs Portal Majorana Fermionic Dark Matter

TL;DR

This paper investigates gamma-ray signals from Higgs portal Majorana fermion dark matter annihilation using 14 years of Fermi-LAT data from dwarf galaxies to set constraints on the annihilation cross section across a wide mass range.

Contribution

It provides the first comprehensive analysis of gamma-ray signals from Higgs portal Majorana fermion dark matter using extensive Fermi-LAT data and constrains the model parameters.

Findings

Constraints on dark matter annihilation cross section for masses 125 GeV to 100 TeV.

No significant gamma-ray excess detected in dwarf spheroidal galaxies.

Limits improve upon previous bounds for certain mass ranges.

Abstract

We study the $\gamma$-ray signal emitted from dark matter (DM) pair annihilation in the Higgs portal Majorana fermion DM model. In the model, a Majorana fermion DM $\chi$ couples with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs field $H$ through a higher-dimensional term $-{\cal L}\supset H^\dagger H \bar{\chi}\chi/\Lambda$, where $\Lambda$ is a cutoff scale. The pair annihilation of $\chi$ through the above term produces the Higgs boson and the longitudinal modes of $W,Z$ gauge bosons. The Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are used as the most promising targets to search for the $\gamma$-ray signal of the model, due to high DM density and lack of astrophysical backgrounds. The {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope ({\it Fermi}-LAT) is used for the search, for its high sensitivity. In this work, we use 14-year {\it Fermi}-LAT data from 16 dSphs, to constrain the DM pair annihilation cross section for the DM mass range from 125 GeV to 100 TeV.