Enhanced extragalactic photon flux by PBH in a stimulated axion/ALP decay scenario

In this work, we show that stimulated decay of axions or axion-like particles in black hole superradiance is an efficient way to find and hunt primordial black holes. When de Broglie’s wavelength of the axion/ALP is comparable or larger than the black hole horizon radius, a large population of such particles accumulates in the surroundings of the black hole. When these axions/ALPs couple to photons, the bosonic cloud decays into photon pairs, generating intense stimulated radiation emission that contributes to the X-ray, visible light, and radio wave background flux that can exceed current observational limits measured at Earth. If the masses are in the interval of 10 − 3 eV < μ < 1 eV , to be consistent with current observations of microwave background light, we found that the fraction of primordial black holes should be smaller than f P B H < 10 − 17 for PBHs with masses within 10 − 13 M ⊙ < M B H < 10 − 7 M ⊙ .

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Nuclear Physics B
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2026-03-01
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2026.117431
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Enhanced extragalactic photon flux by PBH in a stimulated axion/ALP decay scenario

Yadir Garnica, Luis Arturo Ureña-López, J. Barranco
Nuclear Physics B
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Enhanced extragalactic photon flux by PBH in a stimulated axion/ALP decay scenario

Yadir Garnica, Luis Arturo Ureña-López, J. Barranco
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In this work, we show that stimulated decay of axions or axion-like particles in black hole superradiance is an efficient way to find and hunt primordial black holes. When de Broglie’s wavelength of the axion/ALP is comparable or larger than the black hole horizon radius, a large population of such particles accumulates in the surroundings of the black hole. When these axions/ALPs couple to photons, the bosonic cloud decays into photon pairs, generating intense stimulated radiation emission that contributes to the X-ray, visible light, and radio wave background flux that can exceed current observational limits measured at Earth. If the masses are in the interval of 10 − 3 eV < μ < 1 eV , to be consistent with current observations of microwave background light, we found that the fraction of primordial black holes should be smaller than f P B H < 10 − 17 for PBHs with masses within 10 − 13 M ⊙ < M B H < 10 − 7 M ⊙ .

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