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Constraints on Primordial Black Holes from Galactic Diffuse Synchrotron Emissions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-05-01 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We investigate the possibility of constraining primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses MPBH1015gM_\mathrm{PBH}\gtrsim 10^{15}\,\mathrm{g} through Galactic diffuse synchrotron emissions. Due to Hawking radiation, these types of PBHs are expected to be stable sources of cosmic-ray (CR) electrons and positrons with energies below O(10MeV)\mathcal{O}(10\,\mathrm{MeV}). In many CR propagation models with diffusive re-acceleration characterized by a significant Alfv\'{e}n velocity VaO(10)km/sV_a\sim \mathcal{O}(10)\,\mathrm{km/s}, the energies of the evaporated electrons/positrons can be further enhanced to O(100)MeV\mathcal{O}(100)\,\mathrm{MeV} through their scattering with the Galactic random magnetic fields. Consequently, the observation of Galactic synchrotron emissions at frequencies above 20MHz\sim 20\,\mathrm{MHz} can provide useful constraints on the abundance of PBHs. Using the AMS-02 and Voyager-1 data on the boron-to-carbon nuclei flux ratio, we confirm that a significant Alfv\'{e}n velocity Va20km/sV_a \sim 20\,\mathrm{km/s} is favored in several benchmark diffusive re-acceleration models. We show that, in this scenario, the observed low-frequency synchrotron emissions (from 22 MHz to 1.4 GHz) can provide stringent constraints on PBH abundance. The obtained conservative constraints are stronger than those derived from the Voyager-1 all-electron (electron plus positron) data by more than one order of magnitude for MPBH1×1016gM_\mathrm{PBH}\gtrsim 1\times 10^{16}\,\mathrm{g}, and also stronger than our previous constraints derived from the AMS-02 positron data for MPBH2×1016gM_\mathrm{PBH}\gtrsim 2\times 10^{16}\,\mathrm{g}.

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@article{arxiv.2601.19386,
  title  = {Constraints on Primordial Black Holes from Galactic Diffuse Synchrotron Emissions},
  author = {Chen-Wei Du and Yu-Feng Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.19386},
  year   = {2026}
}

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51 pages, 17 figures and 2 tables Accepted in Communications in Theoretical Physics

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