Probing the particle spectrum of nature with evaporating black holes
Michael J. Baker, Andrea Thamm
SciPost Phys. 12, 150 (2022) · published 9 May 2022
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.12.5.150
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Abstract
Photons radiated from an evaporating black hole in principle provide complete information on the particle spectrum of nature up to the Planck scale. If an evaporating black hole were to be observed, it would open a unique window onto models beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. To demonstrate this, we compute the limits that could be placed on the size of a dark sector. We find that observation of an evaporating black hole at a distance of 0.01 parsecs could probe dark sector models containing one or more copies of the Standard Model particles, with any mass scale up to 100 TeV.
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