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| Paper IPM / P / 16767 |
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The excess of the 511 keV line from the Milky Way galactic bulge, confirmed by the INTEGRAL detector, is a longstanding mystery. The morphology of the line appears to be proportional to the square of the dark matter density, hinting towards a dark matter origin. On the other hand, in 2020, XENON1T has reported an excess of electrons with a recoil energy of 2−4 keV. We present a model based on a dark matter of a few MeV mass that decays into a pair of pico-charged particles with a lifetime much larger than the age of the Universe. The magnetic field of the galaxy accumulates these relativistic pico-charged particles whose scattering on the electrons can explain the signal reported by XENON1T. The annihilation of the pico-charged particles in the galactic bulge leads to e−e+ production and therefore to an excess of the 511 keV line. We review the present observational bounds and the strategies to test the model.
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