Constraining annihilating dark matter by radio continuum spectrum of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Abstract

Recent radio observations have obtained stringent constraints for annihilating dark matter. In this article, we use the radio continuum spectral data of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to analyze the dark matter annihilation signals. We have discovered a slightly positive signal of dark matter annihilation with a $1.5\sigma$ statistical significance. The overall best-fit dark matter mass is $m_{\mathrm{DM}}\approx 90$ GeV, annihilating via $b\bar{b}$ channel. We have also constrained the $3\sigma$ lower limits of dark matter mass with the standard thermal dark matter annihilation cross section for the $e^{+}{e}^{-}$, ${\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$, ${\tau }^{+}{\tau }^{-}$ and $b\bar{b}$ channels.

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