Axi-Higgs portal Dark Matter via Wess-Zumino mechanism

Abstract

We study the axion portal between the visible and the dark sector, where the Dark Matter is charged under a simple abelian extension of the Standard Model. In general, such models are anomalous and are rendered gauge invariant by a St\"ukelberg axion through Wess-Zumino/Green-Schwarz mechanism. This axion mixes with other Goldstone bosons in the model to give a physical axi-Higgs which becomes massive upon breaking the anomalous gauge group. Such axi-Higgs fields charged under the anomalous symmetry act as mediators for the Dark Matter annihilation to Standard Model particles and can lead to an efficient freeze-out mechanism. Here, we show that the St{\"u}kelberg axion and the resultant axi-Higgs, with its appropriate shift symmetry cancels the quantum anomalies and also generate the observed relic density for the Dark Matter. Moreover, we show that the relevant parameter space in our model, where photon production dominates, is safe from FermiLAT, Cherenkov Telescope Array, and H.E.S.S. indirect detection experiments.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figure