| Issue |
A&A
Volume 388, Number 2, June III 2002
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 676 - 687 | |
| Section | Astronomical instrumentation | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020313 | |
| Published online | 31 May 2002 | |
Antiprotons from primordial black holes
1
ISN Grenoble, 53 Av. des Martyrs, 38026 Grenoble Cedex, France
2
Université Joseph Fourier, 38000 Grenoble, France
3
LAPTH, BP 110, 74941 Annecy-le-Vieux, France
4
Université de Savoie, 73011 Chambéry, France
Corresponding author: A. Barrau, barrau@isn.in2p3.fr
Received:
21
December
2001
Accepted:
28
February
2002
Primordial black holes (pbhs) have motivated many studies since it was
shown that they
should evaporate and produce all kinds of particles (Hawking
[CITE]).
Recent experimental measurements of cosmic rays with great accuracy,
theoretical investigations on the possible formation mechanisms and detailed
evaporation processes
have revived the interest in such astrophysical objects. This article
aims to use the latest developments in antiproton propagation models
(Maurin et al. [CITE];
Donato et al. [CITE]) together with new data from BESS,
CAPRICE and AMS experiments to constrain the local amount of pbh dark matter.
Depending on the diffusion halo parameters and on the details of
the emission mechanisms, we derive an average upper limit of the order of
g cm-3.
Key words: ISM: cosmic rays / black hole physics / cosmology: dark matter
© ESO, 2002
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