Galactic center γ-ray excess in hidden sector DM models with dark gauge symmetries: local Z3 symmetry as an example

We show that hidden sector dark matter (DM) models with local dark gauge symmetries make a natural playground for the possible gamma-ray excess from the galactic center (GC). We first discuss in detail the GC gamma-ray excess in a scalar dark matter (DM) model with local Z(3) symmetry which was recently proposed by the present authors. Within this model, scalar DM with mass 30-70 GeV is allowed due to the newly-opened (semi-)annihilation channels of a DM pair into dark Higgs phi and/or dark photon Z' pair, and the gamma-ray spectrum from the GC can be fit within this model. Then we argue that the GC gamma ray excess can be easily accommodated within hidden sector dark matter models where DM is stabilized by local gauge symmetries, due to the presence of dark Higgs (and also dark photon for Abelian dark gauge symmetry).