Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Primordial black hole dark matter

Journal Article · 22 April 2023 · Physics of the Dark Universe

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2023.101231 · OSTI ID:2222566

Bird, Simeon  ^[1]; Albert, Andrea ^[2]; Dawson, Will ^[3]; Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine ^[4]; Coogan, Adam ^[5]; Drlica-Wagner, Alex ^[6]; Feng, Qi ^[7]; Inman, Derek ^[8]; Inomata, Keisuke ^[9]; Kovetz, Ely ^[10]; Kusenko, Alexander ^[11]; Lehmann, Benjamin V. ^[12]; Muñoz, Julian B. ^[13]; Singh, Rajeev ^[14]; Takhistov, Volodymyr ^[8]; Tsai, Yu-Dai ^[15]

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1. University of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
2. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
3. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
4. New York University (NYU), NY (United States)
5. University of Montreal, QC (Canada); Mila – Quebec AI Institute, Montreal (Canada)
6. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); University of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP); University of Chicago, IL (United States)
7. Columbia University, New York, NY (United States)
8. University of Tokyo (Japan). Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI)
9. University of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics (KICP)
10. Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva (Israel)
11. University of Tokyo (Japan). Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI); University of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
12. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States); Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
13. Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA (United States)
14. Stony Brook University, NY (United States); Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków (Poland)
15. University of California, Irvine, CA (United States)

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are a viable candidate to comprise some or all of the dark matter and provide a unique window into the high-energy physics of the early universe. Here this white paper discusses the scientific motivation, current status, and future reach of observational searches for PBHs. Future observational facilities supported by DOE, NSF, and NASA will provide unprecedented sensitivity to PBHs. However, devoted analysis pipelines and theoretical modeling are required to fully leverage these novel data. The search for PBHs constitutes a low-cost, high-reward science case with significant impact on the high energy physics community.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
• Grant/Contract Number: AC52-07NA27344; 89243024CSC000002
• OSTI ID: 2222566
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1862273
• Report Number(s): LLNL-JRNL-834745; FERMILAB-PUB-22-195-PPD; arXiv:2203.08967; 1053481; TRN: US2407113
• Journal Information: Physics of the Dark Universe, Vol. 41, Issue N/A; ISSN 2212-6864
• Publisher: ElsevierCopyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English