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 ⊙ .
Authors
- Yadir Garnica
- Luis Arturo Ureña-López
- J. Barranco
Institutions
- Universidad de Guanajuato (MX)
- Universidad de León (MX)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nuclear Physics B
- Published
- 2026-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2026.117431
- Primary Topic
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00