1. Probing dark matter particles from evaporating primordial black holes via electron scattering in the CDEX-10 experiment.
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Zhang, Zhenhua, Yang, Litao, Yue, Qian, Kang, Kejun, Li, Yuanjing, An, Haipeng, Greeshma, C., Chang, Jianping, Chen, Yunhua, Cheng, Jianping, Dai, Wenhan, Deng, Zhi, Fang, Changhao, Geng, Xinping, Gong, Hui, Guo, Qiuju, Guo, Tao, Guo, Xuyuan, He, Li, and He, Shengming
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Dark matter (DM) is a major constituent of the Universe. However, no definite evidence of DM particles (denoted as "χ") has been found in DM direct detection (DD) experiments to date. There is a novel concept of detecting χ from evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs). We search for χ emitted from PBHs by investigating their interaction with target electrons. The examined PBH masses range from 1 × 10
15 to 7 × 1016 g under the current limits of PBH abundance fPBH . Using 205.4 kg·day data obtained from the CDEX-10 experiment conducted in the China Jinping Underground Laboratory, we exclude the χ-electron (χ-e) elastic-scattering cross section σ χ e ∼ 5 × 10−29 cm2 for χ with a mass mχ ≲ 0.1 keV from our results. With the higher radiation background but lower energy threshold (160 eV), CDEX-10 fills a part of the gap in the previous work. If ( m χ , σ χ e ) can be determined in the future, DD experiments are expected to impose strong constraints on fPBH for large MPBH s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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