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arXiv · 2611.00160

Wide-field search for submicrosecond optical and gamma transients as manifestation of primordial black holes evaporation with the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov array

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We demonstrated in our papers [Panov, 2021; Panov,2025), that the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov array physics, originally designed for research in cosmic rays and ultra-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, can also be used for wide-field searches for very rare submicrosecond optical transients of astrophysical origin. The papers \cite{PANOV-2021,PANOV-2025} presented the results of the first four seasons of optical transient searches (2018--2022) and the resulting upper limits on the flux of corresponding events. The present paper presents data processing from two new seasons of optical transient searches (2022--2024). This paper further develops a method for searching for narrow spatiotemporal groups of ultra-high-energy gamma-rays (above 100\,TeV). Since the evaporation of relic black holes can be accompanied by both by the emission of a short light pulse and by a flash of ultra-high-energy gamma-rays, a multimessenger technique for searching for black hole evaporation was in fact implemented in this work, where two different methods are implemented within a single instrument. The search for narrow spatiotemporal groups of gamma-rays was carried out in time windows of 1000\,$μ$s, 100\,$μ$s, and 6\,$μ$s. Since narrow groups of gamma were not detected, the upper limit on their frequency were obtained as $10^{-3}\,\mathrm{ster}^{-1}\mathrm{h}^{-1}$. The upper limit on the number of submicrosecond optical transients have also been updated: $10^{-4}\mathrm{erg/s/cm}^2$ as $5\cdot10^{-4}\,\mathrm{ster}^{-1}\mathrm{h}^{-1}$.

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I. I. Astapov, G. M. Beskin, P. A. Bezyazykov, A. V. Blinov, E. A. Bonvech, A. N. Borodin, N. M. Budnev, A. V. Bulan, P. Busygina, D. V. Chernov, A. Chiavassa, A. N. Dyachok, A. R. Gafarov, A. Yu. Garmash, E. O. Gress, O. A. Gress, T. I. Gress, A. A. Grinyuk, O. G. Grishin, A. L. Ivanova, A. D. Ivanova, M. A. Ilyushin, N. N. Kalmykov, Kh. Karatas, V. V. Kindin, S. N. Kiryuhin, K. G. Kompaniets, E. E. Korosteleva, V. A. Kozhin, E. A. Kravchenko, L. A. Kuzmichev, A. P. Kryukov, A. A. Lagutin, Yu. Lemeshev, B. K. Lubsandorzhiev, N. B. Lubsandorzhiev, S. B. Lubsandorzhiev, A. D. Lukanov, S. D. Malakhov, R. R. Mirgazov, R. D. Monkhoev, E. A. Osipova, A. L. Pakhorukov, A. T. Panferova, L. V. Pankov, A. D. Panov, A. A. Petrukhin, D. A. Podgrudkov, E. G. Popova, E. B. Postnikov, V. V. Prosin, A. A. Pushnin, R. I. Raikin, A. Yu. Razumov, E. Rjabov, G. I. Rubtsov, V. S. Samoliga, A. V. Shaikovsky, A. Yu. Sidorenkov, A. A. Silaev, A. V. Skurikhin, A. V. Sokolov, L. G. Sveshnikova, V. A. Tabolenko, A. B. Tanaev, M. Ternovoy, P. A. Volchugov, N. V. Volkov, D. M. Voronin, I. I. Yashin, A. V. Zagorodnikov, D. P. Zhurov, V. N. Zirakashvili. 2026-10-30. Wide-field search for submicrosecond optical and gamma transients as manifestation of primordial black holes evaporation with the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov array. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00160

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