https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14057-5
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
two-component dark matter in the type-II seesaw mechanism
Institute of Theoretical Physics, School of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, No. 2 Linggong Road, 116024, Dalian, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China
Received:
19
November
2024
Accepted:
12
March
2025
Published online:
10
April
2025
We consider the two-component dark matter model within the framework of the Type-II seesaw mechanism. Due to the new annihilation processes related to triplets, the light component cannot necessarily be dominant in the dark matter relic density, which is different from the two singlet extension of the standard model with a symmetry. The model is considered to explain the excess of electron-positron flux measured by the AMS-02 Collaborations in this work, which is encouraged by the decay of the triplets arising from dark matter annihilations in the Galactic halo. We discuss the cases of the light and heavy components determining dark matter density within a viable parameter space satisfying relic density and direct detection constraints, and by fitting the antiproton spectrum observed in the PAMELA and AMS experiments, we find that the parameter space is flexible and the electron-positron flux excess can be obtained in both cases with the mass of two dark matter particles being larger than that of the triplets’.
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