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Dark matter (DM) is a major constituent of the Universe. However, no definite evidence of DM particles (denoted as “χ”) has been found in DM direct detection (DD) experiments to date. There is a novel concept of detecting χ from evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs). We search for χ emitted from PBHs by investigating their interaction with target electrons. The examined PBH masses range from 1 × 1015 to 7 × 1016 g under the current limits of PBH abundance fPBH. Using 205.4 kg·day data obtained from the CDEX-10 experiment conducted in the China Jinping Underground Laboratory, we exclude the χ-electron (χ-e) elastic-scattering cross section \(\sigma_{{\chi}^{e}}\) ∼ 5 × 10−29 cm2 for χ with a mass mχ ≲ 0.1 keV from our results. With the higher radiation background but lower energy threshold (160 eV), CDEX-10 fills a part of the gap in the previous work. If (\(m_{\chi}, \ \sigma_{{\chi}^{e}}\)) can be determined in the future, DD experiments are expected to impose strong constraints on fPBH for large MPBHs.
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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2023YFA1607100, and 2022YFA1605000), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12322511, 12175112, 12005111, and 11725522). We acknowledge the Center of High performance computing, Tsinghua University for providing the facility support. We would like to thank CJPL and its staff for hosting and supporting the CDEX project. CJPL is jointly operated by Tsinghua University and Yalong River Hydropower Development Company.
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Zhang, Z., Yang, L., Yue, Q. et al. Probing dark matter particles from evaporating primordial black holes via electron scattering in the CDEX-10 experiment. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 67, 101011 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-024-2446-2
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