6th ComHEP: Colombian Meeting on High Energy Physics

Signatures of primordial black hole dark matter at DUNE and THEIA

30 Nov 2021, 09:50

20m

Regular Talk (15'+5') Dark Matter Dark Matter

Speaker

Valentina De Romeri (IFIC CSIC/UV Valencia)

Description

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a potential dark matter candidate whose masses can span over many orders of magnitude. If their masses lie in the ${10}^{15}-{10}^{17}$ g range, they can emit sizeable fluxes of MeV neutrinos through evaporation via Hawking radiation. We investigate the possibility of detecting light (non-)rotating PBHs with future neutrino experiments DUNE and THEIA. We show that these next-generation facilities will be able to set competitive constraints on PBH dark matter, providing complementary probes in a part of the PBH parameter space currently constrained mainly by photon data.

Presentation materials

De_Romeri.pdf