Abstract
We recall and precise how light spin-0 particles could be acceptable dark matter candidates, and extend this analysis to spin- particles. We evaluate the (rather large) annihilation cross sections required, and show how they may be induced by a new light neutral spin-1 boson U. If this one is vectorially coupled to matter particles, the (spin- or spin-0) dark matter annihilation cross section into automatically includes a suppression factor at threshold, as desirable to avoid an excessive production of rays from residual dark matter annihilations. We also relate dark matter annihilations with production cross sections in scatterings. Annihilation cross sections of spin- and spin-0 dark matter particles are given by exactly the same expressions. Just as for spin-0, light spin- dark matter particles annihilating into could be responsible for the bright 511 keV ray line observed by INTEGRAL from the galactic bulge.
- Received 21 March 2004
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.023514
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