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Directional Neutrino Bursts from Spinning and Moving Primordial Black Holes

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-07-29 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show that primordial black holes (PBHs) with significant spin and bulk motion produce sharply collimated neutrino bursts from Hawking evaporation, arising from the interplay of spin-induced angular anisotropy and relativistic Doppler boosting. This effect shifts the neutrino spectrum into the multi-GeV to hundreds of GeV range, where atmospheric backgrounds drop steeply, and enhances the flux by orders of magnitude within a narrow forward cone. We compute the full lab-frame neutrino distribution and derive updated constraints on PBH number density from non-observation of such bursts in IceCube and KM3NeT. Our results identify directional high-energy neutrino bursts as a distinctive, testable signature of spinning PBHs, providing a complementary probe of the PBH dark matter hypothesis and Hawking radiation.

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@article{arxiv.2507.20207,
  title  = {Directional Neutrino Bursts from Spinning and Moving Primordial Black Holes},
  author = {Arnab Chaudhuri and Priya Mishra and Rukmani Mohanta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.20207},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

5 pages, 8 figures. Supplemental Material (4 pages, 1 figure) included