X-ray lines and self-interacting dark matter

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We study the correlation between a monochromatic signal from annihilating dark matter and its self-interacting cross section.

• We apply our argument to a complex scalar dark sector, where the pseudo-scalar plays the role of a warm dark matter candidate while the scalar mediates its interaction with the Standard Model.
• We combine the recent observation of the cluster Abell 3827 for self-interacting dark matter and the constraints on the annihilation cross section for monochromatic X-ray lines.
• We also confront our model to a set of recent experimental analyses and find that such an extension can naturally produce a monochromatic keV signal corresponding to recent observations of Perseus or Andromeda while in the meantime predicts self-interacting cross section of the order of $\sigma / m\simeq0.1-1~\mathrm{cm^2/g}$ as recently claimed in the observation of the cluster Abell 3827.