Through the Looking Glass into the Dark Dimension: Searching for Bulk Black Hole Dark Matter with Microlensing of X-ray Pulsars
| Autor: | Anchordoqui, Luis A., Antoniadis, Ignatios, Lust, Dieter, Castillo, Karem Peñaló |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Dark Univ. 46 (2024) 101681 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.dark.2024.101681 |
| Popis: | Primordial black holes (PBHs) hidden in the incredible bulk of the dark dimension could escape constraints from non-observation of their Hawking radiation. Since these five-dimensional (5D) PBHs are bigger, colder, and longer-lived than usual 4D PBHs of the same mass $M$, they could make all cosmological dark matter if $10^{11} \lesssim M/{\rm g} \lesssim 10^{21}$, i.e., extending the 4D allowed region far down the asteroid-mass window. We show that these evasive PBHs could be search for by measuring their $X$-ray microlensing events from faraway pulsars. We also show that future $X$-ray microlensing experiments will be able to probe the interesting range ($10^{16.5} \lesssim M/{\rm g} \lesssim 10^{17.5}~{\rm g}$) where an all dark matter interpretation in terms of 4D Schwarzschild PBHs is excluded by the non-observation of their Hawking radiation. Comment: Matching journal version |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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