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A two component model of nonthermal dark matter is formulated to simultaneously explain the Fermi-LAT results indicating a γ-ray excess observed from our Galactic Centre in the 1–3 GeV energy range and the detection of an X-ray line at 3.55 keV from extragalactic sources. Two additional Standard Model singlet scalar fields S2 and S3 are introduced. These fields couple among themselves and with the Standard Model Higgs doublet H. The interaction terms among the scalar fields, namely H, S2 and S3, are constrained by the application of a discrete ℤ2 × ℤ ′2 symmetry which breaks softly to a remnant ℤ ′ ′2 symmetry. This residual discrete symmetry is then spontaneously broken through an MeV order vacuum expectation value u of the singlet scalar field S3. The resultant physical scalar spectrum has the Standard Model like Higgs as χ1 with \( {M}_{\chi_1}\sim 125 \) GeV, a moderately heavy scalar χ2 with 50 GeV ≤ \( {M}_{\chi_2}\le 80 \) GeV and a light χ3 with \( {M}_{\chi_3}\sim 7 \) keV. There is only tiny mixing between χ1 and χ2 as well as between χ1 and χ3. The lack of importance of domain wall formation in the present scenario from the spontaneous breaking of the discrete symmetry ℤ ′ ′2 , provided u ≤ 10 MeV, is pointed out. We find that our proposed two component dark matter model is able to explain successfully both the above mentioned phenomena — the Fermi-LAT observed γ-ray excess (from the \( {\chi}_2\to \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}} \) decay mode) and the observation of the X-ray line (from the decay channel χ3 → γγ) by the XMM-Newton observatory.
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Biswas, A., Majumdar, D. & Roy, P. Nonthermal two component dark matter model for Fermi-LAT γ-ray excess and 3.55 keV X-ray line. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 65 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2015)065
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