Search for Primordial Black Holes with SGARFACE

M. Schroedter; F. Krennrich; S. LeBohec; A. Falcone; S. Fegan; D. Horan; J. Kildea; J. Toner; T. Weekes

doi:10.1063/1.3076773

Search for Primordial Black Holes with SGARFACE

M. Schroedter
, F. Krennrich
, S. LeBohec
, A. Falcone
, S. Fegan
, D. Horan
, J. Kildea
, J. Toner
, T. Weekes

Iowa State University
University of Utah
Pennsylvania State University
University of California, Los Angeles
Argonne National Laboratory
FLWO
National University of Ireland

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The Short GAmma Ray Front Air-Cherenkov Experiment (SGARFACE) uses the Whipple 10 m telescope to search for bursts of gamma rays. Bursts can be detected on time scales from a few ns to 20 is and with gamma-ray energy above 100 MeV. SGARFACE began operating in March 2003 and has acquired 2.2 million events since. A search for explosions of primordial black holes (PBH) was carried out using the recorded time-resolved images. No unambiguous burst detection could be made due to background events produced by cosmic rays. Upper limits on the PBH explosion rare are presented and compared to other experiments.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	701-704
Number of pages	4
Journal	AIP Conference Proceedings
Volume	1085
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3076773
Publication status	Published - 13 Apr 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	4th International Meeting on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy - Heidelberg, Germany Duration: 7 Jul 2008 → 11 Jul 2008

Keywords

Air-Cherenkov
Bursts
Gamma rays
General
Primordial black holes
Techniques

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Search for Primordial Black Holes with SGARFACE

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