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arxiv: 1403.1733 · v1 · pith:2XB7DND6new · submitted 2014-03-07 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph.CO· astro-ph.HE

The 3.5 keV X-ray line signal from decaying moduli with low cutoff scale

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keywords scaleabundancecutoffdarkdecayinglinemattermoduli
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The recent unidentified 3.5 keV X-ray line signal can be explained by decaying moduli dark matter with a cutoff scale one order of magnitude smaller than the Planck scale. We show that such modulus field with the low cutoff scale follows a time-dependent potential minimum and its abundance is reduced by the adiabatic suppression mechanism. As a result the modulus abundance can naturally be consistent with the observed dark matter abundance without any fine-tuning of the initial oscillation amplitude.

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