Milagro limits and HAWC sensitivity for the rate-density of evaporating Primordial Black Holes

Abdo, A. A.; Abeysekara, Anushka Udara; Alfaro, R.; Allen, B.; Álvarez, C.; Álvarez, José David Ruiz; Arceo, R.; Arteaga‐Velázquez, J. C.; Aune, T.; Solares, H. A. Ayala; Barber, Ahron S.; Baughman, B. M.; Bautista-Elivar, N.; González, J. Becerra; Belmont, E.; BenZvi, S.; Berley, D.; Rosales, M. Bonilla; Braun, J.; Caballero─López, R. A.; Caballero-Mora, K. S.; Carramiñana, A.; Castillo, M.; Christopher, G.; Cotti, U.; Cotzomi, J.; Fuente, Eduardo de la; León, C. De; DeYoung, T.; Hernández, R. Díaz; Díaz‐Cruz, L.; Díaz-Vélez, J. C.; Dingus, B. L.; DuVernois, Michael; Ellsworth, R. W.; Fiorino, D. W.; Fraija, N.; Galindo, A.; Garfias, F.; González, M. M.; Goodman, J. A.; Grabski, V.; Gussert, M.; Hampel-Arias, Z.; Harding, J. Patrick; Hays, E.; Hoffman, C. M.; Hui, C. M.; Hüntemeyer, P.; Imran, Asif; Iriarte, A.; Karn, P.; Kieda, D.; Kolterman, B. E.; Kunde, G. J.; Lara, A.; Lauer, R.; Lee, W.H.; Lennarz, D.; Vargas, H. León; Linares, Edgar Casimiro; Linnemann, J.; Longo, M.; Luna-García, R.; MacGibbon, Jane H.; Marinelli, A.; Marinelli, S. S.; Martínez, H.; Martı́nez, O.; Martínez-Castro, J.; Matthews, J.; McEnery, J. E.; Torres, E. Mendoza; Mincer, A. I.; Miranda-Romagnoli, P.; Moreno, E.; Morgan, T.; Mostafá, M.; Nellen, L.; Némethy, P.; Newbold, M.; Noriega-Papaqui, R.; Oceguera-Becerra, T.; Patricelli, B.; Pelayo, R.; Pérez-Pérez, E. G.; Pretz, J.; Rivière, C.; Rosa-González, D.; Ruiz-Velasco, E.; Ryan, J. M.; Salazar, H.; Salesa, F.; Sandoval, A.; Parkinson, P. M. Saz; Schneider, M.; Silich, Sergiy; Sinnis, G.; Smith, A. J.; Stump, Dan; Woodle, K. Sparks; Springer, R. W.; Taboada, I.; Toale, P. A.; Tollefson, K.; Torres, I.; Ukwatta, T. N.; Vasileiou, V.; Villaseñor, L.; Weisgarber, T.; Westerhoff, S.; Williams, D. A.; Wisher, I. G.; Wood, J.; Yodh, G.; Younk, P.; Zaborov, D.; Zepeda, A.; Zhou, H.

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“…Primary science goals of the HAWC observatory are searching for the origin of the highest energy cosmic-rays, studying transient phenomena, such gamma-ray binaries and gamma-ray bursts [2], monitoring active Galactic Nuclei, searching for dark matter signals [3] and studying more exotic topics such as primordial black holes [4].…”

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First year results from the HAWC observatory

Casanova

2017

EPJ Web Conf.

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Abstract. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory is an all-sky surveying instrument sensitive to gamma rays and cosmic rays from 100GeV to 100TeV. With its 2sr instantaneous field of view and a duty cycle of > 95%, HAWC is carrying out an unbiased survey of the Northern sky and is monitoring known flaring sources and searching for transients. HAWC operation began mid-2013 with a partially-completed detector. The array was terminated in 2015. We here summarize the status of the observatory, and highlight its first scientific results, resulting from the first year of data taking after completion of the detector. In particular, we will present the HAWC map of the sky at tens of TeV.

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First year results from the HAWC observatory

Casanova

2017

EPJ Web Conf.

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“…HAWC is already the most sensitive detector of its type. Some of the scientific prospects of the experiment include the detection of new TeV sources, measurement of the spectrum of Galactic sources at high energy, detection of GRBs at high energies, detection of transient sources and prompt notification to other experiments, study of the diffuse Galactic emission, cosmic-ray anisotropy, constraints on the existence of the nearby dark matter, evaporation of primary black holes 12 , test of Lorentz invariance, and search for exotic signals like SUSY Q-balls. The partially built HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory has been running for almost two years now.…”

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Highlights from the HAWC telescope

Casanova¹

2017

The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting

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The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory is a water Cherenkov ground array with the capability to distinguish 100 GeV -100 TeV gamma rays from the hadronic cosmic-ray background. HAWC is uniquely suited to study extremely high energy cosmic-ray sources, search for regions of extended Galactic gammaray emission, identify transient phenomena, such gamma-ray binaries and gamma-ray bursts, and monitor active Galactic Nuclei. Operation began mid-2013 with the partiallycompleted detector. Here we will outline the water Cherenkov technique to detect multiTeV photons and highlight the first results from the analysis of the HAWC data.

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“…The current best upper limit on the number density of the evaporating PBHs (ρ PBH ) have been placed by the Milagro experiment [19] (also shown in Figure 3). It is expected that HAWC may give the best VHE constraint from a direct search on the ρ PBH in case of a null PBH burst signal (Figure 3).…”

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“…Primordial black hole searches with AMON Gordana Tešić rating PBHs have been conducted (e.g., [16][17][18][19]) with no signal found. The current best upper limit on the number density of the evaporating PBHs (ρ PBH ) have been placed by the Milagro experiment [19] (also shown in Figure 3).…”

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Searching for primordial black hole evaporation signal with AMON

Tešić¹

2016

Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2015)

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Primordial black holes (PBHs) are expected to gradually evaporate and then explode violently during the last few seconds of their lives, each one producing a burst of high energy particles. For PBHs evaporating near the Sun (r 1 pc), these particles could be detected in coincidence by several observatories with large fields of view, such as IceCube (neutrinos), HAWC (gamma rays) and Pierre Auger (gamma rays, neutrons and protons). The short temporal structure of the anticipated PBH evaporation signal provides a very low false positive rate for any possible detection. We will present the discovery potential of the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) for PBH evaporation events. AMON aims to discover multimessenger transient sources by performing real-time and archival coincidence searches from multiple observatory subthreshold data streams. In this approach, a distinctive PBH evaporation signature may be probed by conducting coincidence analysis from a few years of subthreshold neutrino, gamma-ray and cosmic ray data. Detection of PBH evaporation events would be a scientific breakthrough confirming Hawking's hypothesis of black hole radiation and cosmological models of phase transitions, and would allow us to probe physics at the highest energy scale as well as quantum gravity. : 95.85.Pw, 95.85.Ry, 04.70.Dy PACS

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Milagro limits and HAWC sensitivity for the rate-density of evaporating Primordial Black Holes

Cited by 38 publications

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First year results from the HAWC observatory

First year results from the HAWC observatory

Highlights from the HAWC telescope

Searching for primordial black hole evaporation signal with AMON

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