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Search for Gamma-Ray Spectral Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation up to 100 TeV toward the Galactic Center with MAGIC.

Authors :
Abe H
Abe S
Acciari VA
Aniello T
Ansoldi S
Antonelli LA
Arbet Engels A
Arcaro C
Artero M
Asano K
Baack D
Babić A
Baquero A
Barres de Almeida U
Barrio JA
Batković I
Baxter J
Becerra González J
Bednarek W
Bernardini E
Bernardos M
Berti A
Besenrieder J
Bhattacharyya W
Bigongiari C
Biland A
Blanch O
Bonnoli G
Bošnjak Ž
Burelli I
Busetto G
Carosi R
Carretero-Castrillo M
Ceribella G
Chai Y
Chilingarian A
Cikota S
Colombo E
Contreras JL
Cortina J
Covino S
D'Amico G
D'Elia V
Da Vela P
Dazzi F
De Angelis A
De Lotto B
Del Popolo A
Delfino M
Delgado J
Delgado Mendez C
Depaoli D
Di Pierro F
Di Venere L
Do Souto Espiñeira E
Dominis Prester D
Donini A
Dorner D
Doro M
Elsaesser D
Emery G
Fallah Ramazani V
Fariña L
Fattorini A
Font L
Fruck C
Fukami S
Fukazawa Y
García López RJ
Garczarczyk M
Gasparyan S
Gaug M
Giesbrecht Paiva JG
Giglietto N
Giordano F
Gliwny P
Godinović N
Green JG
Green D
Hadasch D
Hahn A
Hassan T
Heckmann L
Herrera J
Hrupec D
Hütten M
Imazawa R
Inada T
Iotov R
Ishio K
Jiménez Martínez I
Jormanainen J
Kerszberg D
Kobayashi Y
Kubo H
Kushida J
Lamastra A
Lelas D
Leone F
Lindfors E
Linhoff L
Lombardi S
Longo F
López-Coto R
López-Moya M
López-Oramas A
Loporchio S
Lorini A
Lyard E
Machado de Oliveira Fraga B
Majumdar P
Makariev M
Maneva G
Mang N
Manganaro M
Mangano S
Mannheim K
Mariotti M
Martínez M
Mas Aguilar A
Mazin D
Menchiari S
Mender S
Mićanović S
Miceli D
Miener T
Miranda JM
Mirzoyan R
Molina E
Mondal HA
Moralejo A
Morcuende D
Moreno V
Nakamori T
Nanci C
Nava L
Neustroev V
Nievas Rosillo M
Nigro C
Nilsson K
Nishijima K
Njoh Ekoume T
Noda K
Nozaki S
Ohtani Y
Oka T
Otero-Santos J
Paiano S
Palatiello M
Paneque D
Paoletti R
Paredes JM
Pavletić L
Persic M
Pihet M
Podobnik F
Prada Moroni PG
Prandini E
Principe G
Priyadarshi C
Puljak I
Rhode W
Ribó M
Rico J
Righi C
Rugliancich A
Sahakyan N
Saito T
Sakurai S
Satalecka K
Saturni FG
Schleicher B
Schmidt K
Schmuckermaier F
Schubert JL
Schweizer T
Sitarek J
Sliusar V
Sobczynska D
Spolon A
Stamerra A
Strišković J
Strom D
Strzys M
Suda Y
Surić T
Takahashi M
Takeishi R
Tavecchio F
Temnikov P
Terauchi K
Terzić T
Teshima M
Tosti L
Truzzi S
Tutone A
Ubach S
van Scherpenberg J
Vazquez Acosta M
Ventura S
Verguilov V
Viale I
Vigorito CF
Vitale V
Vovk I
Walter R
Will M
Wunderlich C
Yamamoto T
Zarić D
Hiroshima N
Kohri K
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2023 Feb 10; Vol. 130 (6), pp. 061002.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

Linelike features in TeV γ rays constitute a "smoking gun" for TeV-scale particle dark matter and new physics. Probing the Galactic Center region with ground-based Cherenkov telescopes enables the search for TeV spectral features in immediate association with a dense dark matter reservoir at a sensitivity out of reach for satellite γ-ray detectors, and direct detection and collider experiments. We report on 223 hours of observations of the Galactic Center region with the MAGIC stereoscopic telescope system reaching γ-ray energies up to 100 TeV. We improved the sensitivity to spectral lines at high energies using large-zenith-angle observations and a novel background modeling method within a maximum-likelihood analysis in the energy domain. No linelike spectral feature is found in our analysis. Therefore, we constrain the cross section for dark matter annihilation into two photons to ⟨σv⟩≲5×10^{-28}  cm^{3} s^{-1} at 1 TeV and ⟨σv⟩≲1×10^{-25}  cm^{3} s^{-1} at 100 TeV, achieving the best limits to date for a dark matter mass above 20 TeV and a cuspy dark matter profile at the Galactic Center. Finally, we use the derived limits for both cuspy and cored dark matter profiles to constrain supersymmetric wino models.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1079-7114
Volume :
130
Issue :
6
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
36827578
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.061002