Quasi-degenerate dark matter for DAMPE excess and $3.5\text{keV}$ line

Abstract

We propose a quasi-degenerate dark matter scenario to simultaneously explain the $1.4\text{TeV}$ peak in the high-energy cosmic-ray electron-positron spectrum reported by the DAMPE collaboration very recently and the $3.5\text{keV}$ X-ray line observed in galaxies clusters and from the Galactic centre and confirmed by the Chandra and NuSTAR satellites. We consider a dark $SU(2{)}^{\prime }\times U(1{)}^{\prime }$ gauge symmetry under which the dark matter is a Dirac fermion doublet composed of two $SU(2{)}^{\prime }$ doublets with non-trivial $U(1{)}^{\prime }$ charges. At one-loop level the two dark fermion components can have a mass split as a result of the dark gauge symmetry breaking. Through the exchange of a mediator scalar doublet the two quasi-degenerate dark fermions can mostly annihilate into the electron-positron pairs at tree level for explaining the $1.4\text{TeV}$ positron anomaly, meanwhile, the heavy dark fermion can very slowly decay into the light dark fermion with a photon at one-loop level for explaining the $3.5\text{keV}$ X-ray line. Our dark fermions can be also verified in the direct detection experiments.

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