In Phys. Rev. D 98, 103023 (2018), a novel scenario was proposed to probe the interactions between dark matter (DM) particles and electrons, via hydrogen-atmosphere pulsating white dwarfs (DAVs) in globular clusters. The estimation showed that the scenario could hopefully test the parameter space: 5GeV≤mχ≤104GeV and σχ,e≥10−40cm2, where mχ is the DM particle's mass and σχ,e is the elastic scattering cross section between DM and electron. In this comment, we have determined the exact lower limit of the testable DM particle mass ∼1.38−1.58GeV, which depends on σχ,e. This gives us a credible lower limit of the testable DM particle mass in above scenario, and provide a clear upper limit of the DM particle mass which we should consider in future research.
@article{arxiv.1912.12390,
title = {Comment on "Probing the Dark Matter-Electron Interactions via Hydrogen-Atmosphere Pulsating White Dwarfs''},
author = {Jia-Shu Niu and Hui-Fang Xue},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.12390},
year = {2020}
}