2018
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5555-0
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Explanation of the 511 keV line: cascade annihilating dark matter with the $$^8$$ 8 Be anomaly

Abstract: A possible dark matter (DM) explanation about the long-standing issue of the Galactic 511 keV line is explored in this paper. For DM cascade annihilations of concern, a DM pair π 15 MeV. The typical DM annihilation cross section today is about 3.3 × 10 −29 cm 3 s −1 , which can give an explanation about the 511 keV line. The MeV scale DM may be searched by the DM-electron scattering, and the upper limit set by the CMB s-wave annihilation is derived in DM direct detections.

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“…The need for a positron injection energy smaller than 3 MeV [8] implies that, unless one relies on cascade annihilations [9], M DM 3 MeV. Since so small values of M DM have been found to be in conflict with cosmological observations, a simple DM-annihilation origin of the 511 keV line has been claimed excluded in [10].…”
Section: The 511 Line and Dark Matter: Preliminariesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The need for a positron injection energy smaller than 3 MeV [8] implies that, unless one relies on cascade annihilations [9], M DM 3 MeV. Since so small values of M DM have been found to be in conflict with cosmological observations, a simple DM-annihilation origin of the 511 keV line has been claimed excluded in [10].…”
Section: The 511 Line and Dark Matter: Preliminariesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While DM is less likely to be mainly composed of astrophysical objects [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34], there are no particle physics candidates in the standard model (SM), and many models beyond it are under investigation [1,3,4,. The "weakly interacting massive particles miracle" [41,[86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94], i.e., the suggestive coincidence of the weak coupling and the DM density that would have thermally been generated with the latter as the interaction between ordinary matter and DM, motivated us to experimentally test their direct scattering [95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109], the DM decay to visible cosmic rays , and DM productions at collider experiments [98,, but no positive results have been reported so far.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact there are many approaches to explain the anomaly by the new physics models; e.g. local B −L model [8][9][10], local Baryon number model [9], extra U(1) gauge symmetry models [11][12][13][14][15], discussion associated with dark matter [16][17][18], and flavour physics etc. [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%