XENON1T excess in local $Z_2$ DM models with light dark sector

Abstract

Recently XENON1T Collaboration announced that they observed some excess in the electron recoil energy around a 2-3 keV. We show that this excess can be interpreted as exothermic scattering of excited dark matter (XDM), $XDM+e_{atomic}\to DM+e_{free}$ on atomic electron through dark photon exchange. We consider DM models with local dark $U(1)$ gauge symmetry that is spontaneously broken into its $Z_2$ subgroup by Krauss-Wilczek mechanism. In order to explain the XENON1T excess with the correct DM thermal relic density within freeze-out scenario, all the particles in the dark sector should be light enough, namely $\sim O(100)$ MeV for scalar DM and $\sim O(1-10)$ MeV for fermion DM cases. And even lighter dark Higgs $\varphi$ plays an important role in the DM relic density calculation: $X{X}^{†}\to Z^{\prime }\varphi$ for scalar DM ($X$) and $\chi \bar{\chi }\to \varphi \varphi$for fermion DM ($\chi$) assuming $m_{Z^{\prime }}>m_{\chi }$. Both of them are in the $p$-wave annihilation, and one can easily evade stringent bounds from Planck data on CMB on the $s$-wave annihilations, assuming other dangerous $s$-wave annihilations are kinematically forbidden.

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