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The financial support of the German BMBF, MPG, and HGF; the Italian INFN and INAF; the Swiss National Fund SNF; Grants No. PID2019-104114RB-C31, No. PID2019-104114RB-C32, No. PID2019-104114RB-C33, No. PID2019–105510 GB-C31, No. PID2019-107847RB-C41, No. PID2019-107847RB-C42, No. PID2019-107847RB-C44, and No. PID2019–107988 GB-C22 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033; the Indian Department of Atomic Energy; the Japanese ICRR, the University of Tokyo, JSPS, and MEXT; the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-400/18.12.2020; and the Academy of Finland Grant No. 320045 are gratefully acknowledged. This work has also been supported by Centros de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” y Unidades “María de Maeztu” program of the MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (SEV-2016-0588,SEV-2017-0709, CEX2019-000920-S, CEX2019-000918-M, MDM-2015-0509-18-2) and by the CERCA institution of the Generalitat de Catalunya; by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project No. IP-2016-06-9782 and the University of Rijeka Project No. uniri-prirod-18-48; by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB1491 and SFB876/C3; the Polish Ministry of Education and Science Grant No. 2021/WK/08; and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq, and FAPERJ. This work was supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow 19J12715. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 754510.

Linelike features in TeV γ rays constitute a “smoking gun” for TeV-scale particle dark matter and new physics. Probing the Galactic Center region with ground-based Cherenkov telescopes enables the search for TeV spectral features in immediate association with a dense dark matter reservoir at a sensitivity out of reach for satellite γ -ray detectors, and direct detection and collider experiments. We report on 223 hours of observations of the Galactic Center region with the MAGIC stereoscopic telescope system reaching γ -ray energies up to 100 TeV. We improved the sensitivity to spectral lines at high energies using large-zenith-angle observations and a novel background modeling method within a maximum-likelihood analysis in the energy domain. No linelike spectral feature is found in our analysis. Therefore, we constrain the cross section for dark matter annihilation into two photons to ⟨σv⟩ ≲ 5 × 10−28 cm3 s−1 at 1 TeV and ⟨σv⟩ ≲ 1 × 10−25 cm3 s−1 at 100 TeV, achieving the best limits to date for a dark matter mass above 20 TeV and a cuspy dark matter profile at the Galactic Center. Finally, we use the derived limits for both cuspy and cored dark matter profiles to constrain supersymmetric wino models.

With funding from the Spanish government through the "Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu" accreditation (CEX2019-000918-M).

With funding from the Spanish government through the "Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence" accreditation (CEX2019-000920-S).

With funding from the Spanish government through the "Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu" accreditation (MDM-2015-0509).

With funding from the Spanish government through the "Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence" accreditation (SEV-2016-0588).

With funding from the Spanish government through the "Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence" accreditation (SEV-2017-0709).

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