11–15 Sept 2023
Europe/Rome timezone

Direct detection of light dark matter from evaporating primordial black holes

13 Sept 2023, 10:20
10m
Direct DM searches Plenary

Speaker

Roberta Calabrese (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

Light Dark Matter has recently gained a lot of attention. Generally, direct detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter is challenging since it induces low recoil energies. The problem is solved by considering light Dark Matter with considerable kinetic energies. In this talk, we point out that Primordial Black Hole evaporation is a source of boosted light dark Matter with energies of tens to hundreds of MeV. Considering XENON1T data, we constrain the mixed parameter space of Primordial Black Holes and sub-GeV Dark Matter.

Primary authors

Damiano Fiorillo (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen) Dr Marco Chianese (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) Ninetta Saviano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Roberta Calabrese (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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