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Karim Ghorbani

Karim Ghorbani

Academic rank: Associate Professor
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1441-0014
Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Science
Address: Arak University
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Research

Title
Fermionic dark matter with pseudo-scalar Yukawa interaction
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
dark matter theory, particle physics - cosmology connection, cosmology of the- ories beyond the SM, dark matter experiments
Year
2015
Journal Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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Researchers Karim Ghorbani

Abstract

We consider a renormalizable extension of the standard model whose fermionic dark matter (DM) candidate interacts with a real singlet pseudo-scalar via a pseudo-scalar Yukawa term while we assume that the full Lagrangian is CP-conserved in the classical level. When the pseudo-scalar boson develops a non-zero vacuum expectation value, spontaneous CP-violation occurs and this provides a CP-violated interaction of the dark sector with the SM particles through mixing between the Higgs-like boson and the SM-like Higgs boson. This scenario suggests a minimal number of free parameters. Focusing mainly on the indi- rect detection observables, we calculate the dark matter annihilation cross section and then compute the DM relic density in the range up to m DM = 300 GeV. We then find viable regions in the parameter space constrained by the observed DM relic abundance as well as invisible Higgs decay width in the light of 125 GeV Higgs discovery at the LHC. We find that within the constrained region of the parameter space, there exists a model with dark matter mass m DM ∼ 38 GeV annihilating predominantly into b quarks, which can explain the Fermi-LAT galactic gamma-ray excess.