APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker: Kingman Cheung (National Tsing Hua U. (Taiwan))
Title: Probing Dark Photon via Primordial Black Holes Hawking Radiation
Date (JST): Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Abstract:
Primordial black holes (PBH) can be a good source of feebly interacting particles. The PBH undergoes the comventional Hawking radiation such as photons and charged particles, which can result in gamma-rays and can be detected by present and future gamma-ray telescope. We use the PBH to probe dark photon with a mass less than 1 MeV such that the main decay is into 3 photons. We show that the presence of dark photons can modify the gamma-ray spectrum that is distinguishable from the conventional case. We estimate the sensitivity.