4 papers
Asteroid-mass Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter from Supersymmetry
Andrea Boccia, Marco Chianese
We study the formation of asteroid-mass Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) as a dark matter candidate in supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model. We show that the presence of he…
A strike of luck: could the KM3-230213A event be caused by an evaporating primordial black hole?
Andrea Boccia, Fabio Iocco
We investigate whether the ultra high energy neutrino inferred by the recent KM3NeT observation could have originated from an evaporating black hole. Given the characteristics of b…
Light burden of memory: Constraining primordial black holes with high-energy neutrinos
Marco Chianese, Andrea Boccia, Fabio Iocco +2
Recent studies point out that quantum effects, referred to as "memory burden", may slow down the evaporation of black holes. As a result, a population of light primordial black hol…
Constraining the primordial black hole abundance through Big-Bang nucleosynthesis
Andrea Boccia, Fabio Iocco, Luca Visinelli
We investigate the scenario in which primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses Mpbh < 10^9 g undergo Hawking evaporation, around the Big-Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) epoch. The evapo…