The injection of secondary particles produced by dark matter (DM) annihilation at redshift 1000ex0exz1000 affects the process of recombination, leaving an imprint on cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. Here we provide a new assessment of the constraints set by cosmic microwave background data on the mass and self-annihilation cross section of DM particles. Our new analysis includes the most recent WMAP (7-year) and ACT data, as well as an improved treatment of the time-dependent coupling between the DM annihilation energy with the thermal gas. We show, in particular, that the improved measurement of the polarization signal places already stringent constraints on light DM particles, ruling out ``thermal'' WIMPs with mass m_χ10 GeV annihilating into electrons and WIMPs with mass m_χ4 GeV annihilating into muons.
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