Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2022/07/026
Keywords
GR black holes; primordial black holes; gamma ray theory
Funding
- FCT [CERN/FIS-PAR/0027/2021]
- FCT [CERN/FIS-PAR/0027/2021, IF/01597/2015, DE -SC -0019235]
- U.S. DoE [SFRH/BD/151475/2021]
- CFisUC strategic project [CERN/FIS-PAR/0027/2021]
- [UID/FIS/04564/2020]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [CERN/FIS-PAR/0027/2021] Funding Source: FCT
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We show that highly spinning primordial black holes can produce clouds of pions in their vicinity via the superradiant instability. The electromagnetic signatures of this process, including neutral pion decay and charged pion annihilation into photons, contribute to the isotropic gamma-ray background. This allows us to place upper bounds on the abundance of such black holes and discuss the possibility of directly observing these clouds in high-redshift superclusters.
We show that highly spinning primordial black holes of mass M ti 1012 kg, potentially born in a matter-dominated era after inflation, can produce clouds of pions in their vicinity via the superradiant instability, with densities up to that of nuclear matter. We discuss the electromagnetic signatures of this process, via neutral pion decay and charged pion annihilation into photons, computing in particular their contribution to the isotropic gamma-ray background. This allows us to place upper bounds on the abundance of such primordial black holes that are comparable to the ones obtained from Hawking evaporation. We also discuss the possibility of directly observing such clouds in high-redshift superclusters.
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