Munich Dark Matter Meeting - Valentin Thoss (MPE)

Tuesday 20 Oct 2026, 12:30 → 13:30 Europe/Berlin

A.2.25 - Atlas West (MPP)

 

Remote access via zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93858139672?pwd=NkNPZ1ltY2xnT2E1bS94M3VBZ1JUQT09 (Meeting ID: 938 5813 9672, Passcode: 522402)

 

https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/darkmatter/

12:30 → 13:30 Light Primordial Black Holes as a Dark Matter candidate

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are a Dark Matter candidate that has gained a lot of attention in the past few years. Below a mass of 1e17g, they were previously believed to be ruled out due to the process of Hawking evaporation. In the first part of my talk, I will present updated results which suggest that light PBHs could be a viable dark matter candidate due to the "memory burden" effect. In the second part, I want to highlight future possibilities to detect or constrain PBHs in the newly opened mass window using gravitational wave detectors and at asteroidal masses using solar system ephemerides.

Speaker: Valentin Thoss (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)