Jun 19 – 21, 2023
Naples, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Signatures of primordial black hole dark matter at DUNE and THEIA

Jun 21, 2023, 10:00 AM
20m
Naples, Italy

Naples, Italy

Talk Session 9

Speaker

Valentina De Romeri

Description

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a potential dark matter candidate whose masses can span over many orders of magnitude. If they have masses in the 10^15 − 10^17 g range, they can emit sizeable fluxes of MeV neutrinos through evaporation via Hawking radiation. We explore the possibility of detecting light (non-)rotating PBHs with future neutrino experiments DUNE and THEIA. We will show that they will be able to set competitive constraints on PBH dark matter, thus providing complementary probes in a part of the PBH parameter space currently constrained mainly by photon data.

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