Weekly seminars

Unravelling the mystery of Dark Matter with Black Holes [Remote talk]

par Anupam Ray

Europe/Paris
Auditorium (LAPTh)

Auditorium

LAPTh

Description
Primordial black holes (PBHs), possibly formed via gravitational collapse of large density perturbations in the very early universe, are one of the earliest proposed and viable dark matter (DM) candidates. PBHs can make up a large or even entirety of DM over a wide range of masses. Ultralight PBHs in the mass range of 10^{15} - 10^{17} g, emit particles via Hawking radiation, act as a decaying DM, and can be probed via observations of those emitted particles in various space as well as ground based detectors. In this talk, I will discuss how diffuse supernova neutrino background searches at the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, measurement of the 511 keV gamma-ray line by INTEGRAL telescope, observations of low energy Galactic Center photons by the imminent soft gamma-ray telescope AMEGO, and EDGES measurement of  the global 21-cm signal can set robust, world-leading exclusions on the fraction of DM composed of ultralight PBHs. Finally, I will also walk you through a novel formation mechanism of low mass transmuted black holes, a viable non-primordial solution to sub-Chandrasekhar mass black holes, pointing out several avenues to test the transmuted origin of low mass black holes.