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Sensitivity of future gamma-ray telescopes to primordial black holes

Celeste Keith1,2, Dan Hooper1,2,3, Tim Linden4, and Rayne Liu1,2

  • 1University of Chicago, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago Illinois 60637, USA
  • 2University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chicago Illinois 60637, USA
  • 3Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
  • 4Stockholm University and The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, AlbaNova, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden

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Phys. Rev. D 106, 043003 – Published 2 August, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.043003

Abstract

The strongest existing constraints on primordial black holes with masses in the range of mBH∼1015–1017  g have been derived from measurements of the local cosmic-ray electron-positron flux by Voyager 1, and MeV-scale gamma-ray observations of the inner Galaxy by COMPTEL and INTEGRAL. In this paper, we evaluate the sensitivity of future MeV-scale gamma-ray telescopes such as e-ASTROGAM or AMEGO to Hawking radiation. We show that such an instrument would be able to provide the strongest constraints on black holes in the mass range of mBH∼(0.6–20)×1016  g, typically exceeding current constraints by approximately two orders of magnitude. In scenarios in which the observed 511 keV excess is the result of Hawking radiation, we find that e-ASTROGAM or AMEGO would not only be able to detect the Hawking radiation from the inner Galaxy, but could precisely measure the abundance and mass distribution of the black holes responsible for this signal.

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Phys. Rev. D 106, 043003– Published 2 August, 2022
  • Received 26 April 2022
  • Accepted 2 July 2022
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