Open AccessSignatures of primordial black hole dark matter at DUNE and THEIA
Author(s) -
Valentina De Romeri
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2156/1/012050
Subject(s) - dark matter , physics , primordial black hole , astrophysics , range (aeronautics) , parameter space , particle physics , gravitational wave , binary black hole , statistics , materials science , mathematics , composite material
Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a potential dark matter candidate whose masses can span over many orders of magnitude. If their masses lie in the 10 15 — 10 17 g range, they can emit sizeable fluxes of MeV neutrinos through evaporation via Hawking radiation. We investigate the possibility of detecting light (non-)rotating PBHs with future neutrino experiments DUNE and THEIA. We show that these next-generation facilities will be able to set competitive constraints on PBH dark matter, providing complementary probes in a part of the PBH parameter space currently constrained mainly by photon data.