Observational analysis reveals no significant excess in dark matter annihilation in the Galactic Center, suggesting limits on particle interactions.
We conduct an indirect dark matter (DM) search in the Galactic Center, focusing on a square region within ± 9∘ in Galactic longitude and latutide, using 2,865 days of data (~8 years) from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. We explore DM particles within the Weakly Interacting Massive Particles framework with masses from 1 TeV to 10 PeV. Analyzing three annihilation channels (bb̄, τ⁺τ⁻, W⁺W⁻) and three density profiles (Navarro-Frenk-White, Einasto, Burkert), we find no significant excess and set 95% confidence-level upper limits on the velocity-weighted annihilation cross section. Our results provide the first constraints on DM particles well above 100 TeV using gamma-ray data from the Galactic Center, with the strongest limits O(10⁻²⁴)~cm³/s, from the τ⁺τ⁻ channel and the Einasto profile.
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