13–17 May 2024
University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University
US/Eastern timezone

Evaporating Black Holes in the presence of Dark Sectors

15 May 2024, 17:15
15m
Barco Law Building 109 (University of Pittsburgh)

Barco Law Building 109

University of Pittsburgh

Astro-particle Physics Astro-particle Physics

Speaker

Aidan Symons (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Description

Hawking radiation emitted by a black hole is typically modified in the presence of new degrees of freedom beyond the Standard Model. In this talk I will discuss the characteristics of a hypothetical observation of a black hole in its final minutes of evaporation by current and upcoming Very/Ultra High Energy Gamma Ray telescopes, such as HAWC, LHAASO, and CTA. I will then discuss the potential for multi-messenger signals by the first and second generations of IceCube, and KM3NET. We typically predict sensitivity to dark sectors with order 10 new Dirac fermions up to mass scales of hundreds of TeV.

Author

Aidan Symons (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

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