2013/06/13 by James M. Cline, Cline, James M., Grace Dupuis +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #astro-ph.CO #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1306.3217
28 pages, 22 figures. v2: Expanded discussions with four new figures, updated references, published version; v3: changed title
arxiv created 2013/11/08 · arxiv updated 2013/11/11
Dark matter annihilation into photons in our galaxy would constitute an exciting indirect signal of its existence, as underscored by tentative evidence for 130 GeV dark matter in Fermi/LAT data. Models that give a large annihilation cross section into photons typically require the dark matter to couple to, or be composed of, new charged particles, that can be produced in colliders. We consider the LHC constraints on some representative models of these types, including the signals of same-sign dileptons, opposite-sign dileptons, events mimicking the production and decay of excited leptons, four-photon events, resonant production of composite vectors decaying into two photons, and monophoton events.