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arxiv: 1209.1955 · v2 · pith:3IICHK3Gnew · submitted 2012-09-10 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph.HE· hep-ex

Axion-mediated dark matter and Higgs diphoton signal

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keywords darkmattermodelsanomalyaxion-mediatedextrafermionhiggs
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We consider axion-mediated dark matter models motivated by Fermi gamma ray line at 130 GeV, where anomaly interactions of an axion-like scalar mediate a singlet Dirac fermion dark matter (DM) to electroweak gauge bosons. In these models, extra vector-like leptons generate anomaly interactions for the axion and can also couple to the SM Higgs boson to modify the Higgs-to-diphoton rate. We can distinguish models by the branching fraction of the DM annihilation into a photon pair, favoring the model with a triplet fermion. From the condition that the lighter charged extra lepton must be heavier than dark matter for no tree-level DM annihilations, we also show that the ratio of Higgs-to-diphoton rate to the SM value is constrained by vacuum stability to 1.4(1.5) for the cutoff scale of 10(1) TeV.

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