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| Author(s): |
Queiroz, Farinaldo S.
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Yaguna, Carlos E.
Total Authors: 2
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics; v. N/A, n. 1, p. 10-pg., 2019-01-01. |
| Abstract | |
Determining the fundamental properties of the dark matter is one of the most important open problems in particle physics today. If the dark matter particle has spin zero, one of these properties is its CP nature. That is, whether it is CP-even (scalar), CP-odd (pseudoscalar), or if its interactions violate CP. In this paper, we show that the observation of gamma-ray lines arising from the decay of a spin-zero dark matter particle could be used to discriminate among these possibilities. We consider a general setup where dark matter decay is induced by effective operators and demonstrate that, due to gauge invariance, there exists correlations among the branching ratios into gauge boson final states (gamma gamma, gamma Z, W+W-, ZZ) that depend on the mass and the CP properties of the dark matter. Consequently, the future observation of gamma-ray lines may in principle be used to establish the CP nature of the dark matter particle. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/01343-7 - ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research: a regional center for theoretical physics |
| Grantee: | Nathan Jacob Berkovits |
| Support Opportunities: | Special Projects |