Primordial black holes and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

preprint2023arXivOpen access

Abstract

Primordial black holes are a popular candidate for dark matter. In the mass regime where their conjectured Hawking evaporation is significant, they have been subject to many constraints via X-rays, gamma-rays, and even radio emission. Previously the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect has been considered to place further limits on the M > 10M? primordial black hole abundance via the effects of their accretion of ambient gas. In this work, we will present a novel and robust means of placing abundance limits on low-mass black holes, using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect induced by electrons produced via their Hawking radiation within galaxy clusters.

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