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Comment on "Probing the Dark Matter-Electron Interactions via Hydrogen-Atmosphere Pulsating White Dwarfs''

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-01-01 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

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: 5GeVmχ104GeV5 \mathrm{GeV} \le m_{\chi} \le 10^{4} \mathrm{GeV} and σχ,e1040cm2\sigma_{\chi,e} \ge 10^{-40} \mathrm{cm}^{2}, where mχm_{\chi} is the DM particle's mass and σχ,e\sigma_{\chi,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 1.381.58GeV\sim 1.38 - 1.58 \mathrm{GeV}, which depends on σχ,e\sigma_{\chi,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.

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@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}
}

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