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Boosted dark matter from primordial black holes produced in a first-order phase transition

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-12-23 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

During a cosmological first-order phase transition in a dark sector, fermion dark matter particles χ\chi can form macroscopic Fermi balls that collapse to primordial black holes (PBHs) under certain conditions. The evaporation of the PBHs produces a boosted χ\chi flux, which may be detectable if χ\chi couples to visible matter. We consider the interaction of χ\chi with electrons, and calculate signals of the dark matter flux in the XENON1T, XENONnT, Super-Kamiokande and Hyper-Kamiokande experiments. A correlated gravitational wave signal from the phase transition can be observed at THEIA and μ\muAres. An amount of dark radiation measurable by CMB-S4 is an epiphenomenon of the phase transition.

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@article{arxiv.2212.13035,
  title  = {Boosted dark matter from primordial black holes produced in a first-order phase transition},
  author = {Danny Marfatia and Po-Yan Tseng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.13035},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

14 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Bug fixed. Conclusions unchanged