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Decaying Dark Matter in Halos of Primordial Black Holes

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-08-20 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate photon signatures of general decaying dark-matter particles in halos of primordial black holes. We derive the halo-profile density and the total decay rate for these combined dark-matter scenarios. For the case of axion-like particles of masses below O(1)\mathcal{O}( 1 )\,keV, we find strong bounds on the decay constant which are several orders of magnitude stronger than the strongest existing bounds, for all halo masses above O(105)\mathcal{O}( 10^{-5} ) solar masses. Using future X-ray measurements, it will be possible to push these bounds on such combined dark-matter scenarios even further.

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@article{arxiv.1811.05810,
  title  = {Decaying Dark Matter in Halos of Primordial Black Holes},
  author = {Florian Kuhnel and Tommy Ohlsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05810},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures; v2: revised in order to match published version