Fermionic sub-GeV Dark Matter from evaporating Primordial Black Holes at DarkSide-50

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T. D. C. P. Agnes, I. Albuquerque, T. Alexander, A. Altõn, M. Ave, H. Back, G. Batignani, K. Biery, V. Bocci, W. Bonivento

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B. Bottino, S. Bussino, M. Cadeddu, M. Cadoni, R. Calabrese, F. Calaprice, A. Caminata, N. Canci, M. Caravati, N. Cargioli, M. Cariello, M. Carlini, P. Cavalcante, S. Chashin, A. Chepurnov, M. Chianese, D. D’Angelo, S. Davini, S. Cecco, A. Derbin, M. D'Incecco, C. Dionisi, F. Dordei, M. Downing, G. Fiorillo, D. Franco, F. Gabriele, C. Galbiati, C. Ghiano, C. Giganti, G. Giovanetti, A. Goretti, G. G. Cortona, A. Grobov, M. Gromov, M. Guam, M. Gulino, B. Hackett, K. Herner, T. Hessel, F. Hubaut, E. Hungerford, A. Ianni, V. Ippolito, K. Keeter, C. Kendziora, M. Kimura, I. Kochanek, D. Korablev, G. Korga, A. Kubankin, M. Kuss, M. Commara, M. Lai, X. Li, M. Lissia, O. Lychagina, I. Machulin, L. Mapelli, S. Mari, J. Maricic, A. Messina, R. Milincic, J. Monroe, M. Morrocchi, V. Muratova, P. Musico, A. Nozdrina, A. Oleinik, F. Ortica, L. Pagani, M. Pallavicini, L. Pandola, E. Pantic, E. Paoloni, K. Pelczar, N. Pelliccia, S. Piacentini, A. Pocar, M. Poehlmann, S. Pordes, S. Poudel, P. Pralavorio, D. Price, F. Ragusa, M. Razeti, A. Renshaw, M. Rescigno, J. Rode, A. Romani, D. Sablone, O. Samoylov, S. Sanfilippo, C. Savarese, N. Saviano, B. Schlitzer, D. Semenov, A. Sheshukov, M. Skorokhvatov, O. Smirnov, A. Sotnikov, S. Stracka, Y. Suvorov, R. Tartaglia, G. Testera, A. Tonazzo, E. Unzhakov, A. Vishneva, R. Vogelaar, M. Wada, H. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Westerdale, M. Wójcik, X. Xiao, C. Yang, G. Zuzel

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We present a search for boosted dark matter from Primordial Black Holes (PBH) evaporation using the DarkSide-50 ionization-signal-only dataset corresponding to the experiment's ($12202\pm180$) ${\rm kg\: d}$ exposure. We focus on evaporation of PBHs with masses in the range [$10^{14},\,10^{16}$] g producing Dirac fermionic dark matter particles with sub-GeV kinetic energy. These relativistic particles, with energies up to hundreds of MeV, can generate detectable signals for masses below $\mathcal{O}(100)$ MeV. The absence of a signal enables setting complementary limits to those derived from cosmological observations and direct detection searches for cosmic ray-boosted dark matter.

DOI: 10.1103/zfmd-k11f