The 3.5 keV Line from Stringy Axions
arXiv:1707.02987 · doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2017)192
Abstract
An interesting result in particle astrophysics is the recent detection of an unexplained 3.5 keV line from galaxy clusters. A promising model, which can explain the morphology of the signal and its non-observation in dwarf spheroidal galaxies, involves a 7 keV dark matter particle decaying into a pair of ultra-light axions that convert into photons in the magnetic field of the clusters. Given that light axions emerge naturally in 4D string vacua, in this paper we present a microscopic realisation of this model within the framework of type IIB flux compactifications. Dark matter is a local closed string axion which develops a tiny mass due to subdominant poly-instanton corrections to the superpotential and couples via kinetic mixing to an almost massless open string axion living on a D3-brane at a singularity. The interaction of this ultra-light axion with photons is induced by U(1) kinetic mixing. After describing the Calabi-Yau geometry and the brane set-up, we discuss in depth moduli stabilisation, the resulting mass spectrum and the strength of all relevant couplings.
27 pages + appendices, 1 figure; typos corrected, references added, additional comments on the cosmological history and DM production in the conclusions
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