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Micro-Bose/Proca dark matter stars from black hole superradiance

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-05-31 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the production of heavy, μ1\mu \gtrsim 1 TeV, bosonic spin s=0,1s=0,1 dark matter (DM) via the simultaneous processes of Hawking evaporation and superradiance (SR) from an initial population of small, 106\lesssim 10^6 kg, primordial black holes (PBHs). Even for small initial PBH spins the SR process can produce extremely dense gravitationally-bound DM Bose or Proca soliton "stars" of radius pm\lesssim {\rm pm} and mass 10few\sim 10^{\rm few} kg that can survive to today, well after PBH decay. These solitons can constitute a significant fraction of the DM density, rising to 50%\gtrsim 50\% in the vector DM case.

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@article{arxiv.2205.15277,
  title  = {Micro-Bose/Proca dark matter stars from black hole superradiance},
  author = {John March-Russell and João G. Rosa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.15277},
  year   = {2022}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures