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Primordial black holes (PBHs) are able to produce light dark matter (DM) particles via Hawking radiation, and yield a flux of boosted DM that can be probed at underground DM direct detection experiments. We analyze both galactic and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 Tong Zhu , Cheng-Rui Jiang , Tong Li , Jiajun Liao

The explorations of alternative dark matter (DM) candidates beyond WIMP motivated primordial black holes (PBHs) or sub-GeV DM particle in the Milky Way. Neutrinos from PBH evaporation at the present times play as a novel medium boosting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-13 Wei Chao , Tong Li , Jiajun Liao

Current multi-tonne-scale dark matter (DM) detectors are largely incapable of detecting light dark matter from the Galactic halo due to the energy threshold limitations of their recoil measurements. However, primordial black holes (PBHs)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 Sk Jeesun , Anirban Majumdar , Rahul Srivastava

The direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter interacting with nucleons is hampered by the low recoil energies induced by scatterings in the detectors. This experimental difficulty is avoided in the scenario of boosted dark matter where a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-07 Roberta Calabrese , Marco Chianese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Ninetta Saviano

We revisit the role of primordial black holes (PBHs) as potential dark matter (DM) candidates, particularly focusing on light asteroid-mass PBHs. These PBHs are expected to emit particles through Hawking evaporation that can generate cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-26 Pedro De la Torre Luque , Jordan Koechler , Shyam Balaji

We study the matter power spectrum constraint on primordial black holes (PBH) by the dark matter (DM) emitted through Hawking radiation. We particularly focus on the scenario where PBH, with mass ranges between 1g and $10^9$g, evaporates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Yu-Ming Chen

Primordial black holes (PBHs) hypothetically generated in the first instants of life of the Universe are potential dark matter (DM) candidates. Focusing on PBHs masses in the range $[5 \times10^{14} - 5 \times 10^{15}]$g, we point out that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-14 Roberta Calabrese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Gennaro Miele , Stefano Morisi , Antonio Palazzo

The galactic 511 keV gamma-ray line has been observed since 1970's, and was identified as the result of electron-positron annihilation, but the origin of such positrons is still not clear. Apart from the astrophysical explanations, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-19 Rong-Gen Cai , Yu-Chen Ding , Xing-Yu Yang , Yu-Feng Zhou

Dark Matter (DM) is omnipresent in our universe. Despite its abundance, the microscopic identity of DM still remains a mystery. Primordial black holes (PBHs), possibly formed via gravitational collapse of large density perturbations in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-11 Anupam Ray

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a compelling candidate for Dark Matter (DM). There remain significant parameter spaces to be explored despite current astrophysical observations have set strong limits. Utilizing advanced MeV observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Zhen Xie , Bing Liu , Jiahao Liu , Yi-Fu Cai , Ruizhi Yang

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are the plausible candidates for the cosmological dark matter. Theoretically, PBHs with masses $M_{\rm PBH}$ in the range of $4\times10^{14}\sim 10^{17}\,{\rm g}$ can emit sub-GeV electrons and positrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-24 Bing-Yu Su , Xu Pan , Guan-Sen Wang , Lei Zu , Yupeng Yang , Lei Feng

We investigate two classes of dark matter (DM) candidates, sub-GeV particles and primordial black holes (PBHs), that can inject low-energy electrons and positrons into the Milky Way and leave observable signatures in the X-ray sky. In the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Shyam Balaji , Damon Cleaver , Pedro De la Torre Luque , Miltiadis Michailidis

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space-based instrument for detecting GeV-TeV cosmic rays and gamma rays. High-energy cosmic rays could be emitted from several dark matter candidates theoretically, such as the heavy dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-18 Tian-Ci Liu , Ben-Yang Zhu , Yun-Feng Liang , Xiao-Song Hu , En-Wei Liang

Ultra-light primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range of 10$^{16}$ - 10$^{22}$ g are allowed by current observations to constitute a significant fraction, if not all, of the dark matter in the Universe. In this work, we present limits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-26 Denys Malyshev , Emmanuel Moulin , Andrea Santangelo

Primordial black holes are a possible component of dark matter, and a most promising way of investigating them is through the product of their Hawking evaporation. As a result of this process, any species lighter than the Hawking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-16 Roberta Calabrese , Marco Chianese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Ninetta Saviano

The primordial black holes (PBHs) play as a novel source to radiate light elementary particles of energies in the region of a few hundred MeV. We explore the possibility that the axion-like particles (ALPs) with mass less than 1 MeV are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-07 Tong Li , Rui-Jia Zhang

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the most appealing dark matter candidates over a wide range of masses and abundances. This broad parameter space has been constrained by a variety of observational probes. In this work, for the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Joaquim Iguaz Juan

Primordial black holes (PBHs), formed out of large overdensities in the early Universe, are a viable dark matter (DM) candidate over a broad range of masses. Ultra-light, asteroid-mass PBHs with masses around $10^{17}$ g are particularly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 Anupam Ray , Ranjan Laha , Julian B. Muñoz , Regina Caputo

We study the possibility of generating dark matter (DM) purely from ultra-light primordial black hole (PBH) evaporation with the latter being produced from a first order phase transition (FOPT) in the early Universe. If such ultra-light PBH…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-23 Debasish Borah , Suruj Jyoti Das , Indrajit Saha
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