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Neutrino superradiance constraint on asteroid-mass PBH Dark Matter and beyond

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-07-14 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are an attractive candidate for Dark Matter (DM) and there has been extensive experimental efforts to look for them. The asteroid-mass window, MPBH10171023M_{\text{PBH}} \sim 10^{17} - 10^{23} g, is particularly interesting, since PBHs in this range may still constitute all of DM. In this work, we study a scenario in which rotating PBHs are surrounded by superradiantly produced boson clouds that emit an approximately steady and nearly monochromatic flux of neutrinos in the few MeV range. We compute both the Galactic and extragalactic neutrino fluxes from such PBH populations and compare them with existing low-energy antineutrino limits from Borexino, KamLAND, and Super-Kamiokande. For scalar bosons, we find that these neutrino searches can strongly constrain a significant part of the asteroid-mass window and extend to somewhat larger masses. For instance, for rapidly rotating PBHs with spin \~{a} = 0.9 and gravitational fine-structure coupling αg=0.25\alpha_g=0.25, the strongest bound on dark matter fraction reaches approximately fPBH107f_{\text{PBH}} \sim 10^{-7} around MPBH2×1022M_{\text{PBH}} \sim 2 \times 10^{22} g for a Yukawa coupling gνϕ=104g_{\nu \phi} = 10^{-4}. These constraints can be significantly stronger than existing microlensing limits in the same mass range. Our results provide a complementary neutrino probe of PBH DM, distinct from previous neutrino constraints based mainly on Hawking evaporation from lighter PBHs.

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@article{arxiv.2607.12485,
  title  = {Neutrino superradiance constraint on asteroid-mass PBH Dark Matter and beyond},
  author = {Yi-Xuan Lin and Priyanka Sarmah and Martin Spinrath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12485},
  year   = {2026}
}

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25 pages, 8 figures