Primordial extremal black holes as dark matter
Abstract
We show that primordial (nearly) extremal black holes with a wide range of masses from the Planck scale to around 109 g could be cosmologically stable and provide a viable explanation for dark matter, given a dark electromagnetism and a heavy dark electron. Hawking radiation and Schwinger discharge processes are suppressed by near extremality and the heaviness of the dark electron, respectively. The merger events of binary systems with opposite charges generate nonextremal black holes, whose subsequent Hawking evaporation produces transient neutrino and gamma ray signals to be observed at telescopes like IceCube and HAWC. The relationship between the near-extremal black hole and dark electron masses could also shed light on the weak gravity conjecture.
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1603200
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1803133
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0017647; PHY-1066293
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 101 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics
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Bai, Yang, and Orlofsky, Nicholas. Primordial extremal black holes as dark matter. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.055006.
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title = {Primordial extremal black holes as dark matter},
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abstractNote = {We show that primordial (nearly) extremal black holes with a wide range of masses from the Planck scale to around 109 g could be cosmologically stable and provide a viable explanation for dark matter, given a dark electromagnetism and a heavy dark electron. Hawking radiation and Schwinger discharge processes are suppressed by near extremality and the heaviness of the dark electron, respectively. The merger events of binary systems with opposite charges generate nonextremal black holes, whose subsequent Hawking evaporation produces transient neutrino and gamma ray signals to be observed at telescopes like IceCube and HAWC. The relationship between the near-extremal black hole and dark electron masses could also shed light on the weak gravity conjecture.},
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journal = {Physical Review D},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2020}
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