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

Multi-messenger Probes of Primordial Black Holes and Axion-Like Particles

16 May 2024, 16:30
15m
Barco Law Building 109 (University of Pittsburgh)

Barco Law Building 109

University of Pittsburgh

Astro-particle Physics Astro-particle Physics

Speaker

Tao Xu (The University of Oklahoma)

Description

Superradiance provides a unique opportunity for investigating dark sectors as well as primordial black holes (PBHs), which themselves are candidates for dark matter (DM) over a wide mass range. Using axion-like particles (ALPs) as an example, we show that line signals emerging from a superradiated ALP cloud combined with Hawking radiation from PBHs, along with microlensing observations lead to complementary constraints on parameter space combinations including the ALP-photon coupling, ALP mass, PBH mass, and PBH DM fraction. For the asteroid mass range 10161022 g, where PBHs can provide the totality of DM, we demonstrate that ongoing and upcoming observations such as SXI, JWST, and AMEGO-X will be sensitive to possible line and continuum signals, respectively, providing probes of previously inaccessible parameter space.

Authors

Prof. Bhaskar Dutta James Dent Tao Xu (The University of Oklahoma)

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