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Detecting ultra-light primordial black holes as the dark matter candidate
Add to Calendar 2021-02-09T18:30:00 2021-02-09T19:30:00 UTC Detecting ultra-light primordial black holes as the dark matter candidate https://psu.zoom.us/j/93641512423
Start DateTue, Feb 09, 2021
1:30 PM
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End DateTue, Feb 09, 2021
2:30 PM
Presented By
Ranjan Laha, CERN
Event Series: HEPAP/CMA

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a well motivated candidate of dark matter (DM).  There exists a wide range of PBH masses where it can comprise of the full DM density.  In this talk, I will concentrate on the ultra-light range of PBH DM (mass of PBH $\lesssim$ 10$^{17}$ g).  These ultra-light PBHs can be discovered or constrained via their Hawking radiation.  We use the observations of the 511 keV gamma-ray line and MeV gamma-ray observations at the Galactic Center to show that PBHs with masses less then 1.2 $\times$ 10$^{17}$ g cannot comprise all of the DM, setting the strongest bound on ultra-light PBHs.