scholarly journals Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Green ◽  
Bradley Kavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Primordial Black Holes

scholarly journals A constraint on light primordial black holes from the interstellar medium temperature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyungjin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dwarf Galaxy ◽  
Dark Matter Candidate ◽  
Primordial Black Hole ◽  
Primordial Black Holes ◽  
Substantial Fraction ◽  
Interstellar Gas ◽  
Medium Temperature ◽  
Fast Electrons

Abstract Primordial black holes are a viable dark matter candidate. They decay via Hawking evaporation. Energetic particles from the Hawking radiation interact with interstellar gas, depositing their energy as heat and ionization. For a sufficiently high Hawking temperature, fast electrons produced by black holes deposit a substantial fraction of energy as heat through the Coulomb interaction. Using the dwarf galaxy Leo T, we place an upper bound on the fraction of primordial black hole dark matter. For M < 5 × 10−17M⊙, our bound is competitive with or stronger than other bounds.

scholarly journals Constraining mixed dark-matter scenarios of WIMPs and primordial black holes from CMB and 21-cm observations

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Tashiro ◽  
Kenji Kadota
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Primordial Black Holes

scholarly journals NANOGrav Data Hints at Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 126 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. De Luca ◽  
G. Franciolini ◽  
A. Riotto
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Primordial Black Holes

scholarly journals Primordial black holes from the QCD epoch: linking dark matter, baryogenesis, and anthropic selection

2020 ◽  
Vol 501 (1) ◽  
pp. 1426-1439
Author(s):  
Bernard Carr ◽  
Sebastien Clesse ◽  
Juan García-Bellido
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Selection Effect ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Baryon Asymmetry ◽  
Primordial Black Holes ◽  
Cosmological Horizon ◽  
Chandrasekhar Limit ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Characteristic Mass

ABSTRACT If primordial black holes (PBHs) formed at the quark-hadron epoch, their mass must be close to the Chandrasekhar limit, this also being the characteristic mass of stars. If they provide the dark matter (DM), the collapse fraction must be of order the cosmological baryon-to-photon ratio ∼10−9, which suggests a scenario in which a baryon asymmetry is produced efficiently in the outgoing shock around each PBH and then propagates to the rest of the Universe. We suggest that the temperature increase in the shock provides the ingredients for hotspot electroweak baryogenesis. This also explains why baryons and DM have comparable densities, the precise ratio depending on the size of the PBH relative to the cosmological horizon at formation. The observed value of the collapse fraction and baryon asymmetry depends on the amplitude of the curvature fluctuations that generate the PBHs and may be explained by an anthropic selection effect associated with the existence of galaxies. We propose a scenario in which the quantum fluctuations of a light stochastic spectator field during inflation generate large curvature fluctuations in some regions, with the stochasticity of this field providing the basis for the required selection. Finally, we identify several observational predictions of our scenario that should be testable within the next few years. In particular, the PBH mass function could extend to sufficiently high masses to explain the black hole coalescences observed by LIGO/Virgo.

scholarly journals Primordial black holes as dark matter: converting constraints from monochromatic to extended mass distributions

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (01) ◽  
pp. 004-004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Bellomo ◽  
José Luis Bernal ◽  
Alvise Raccanelli ◽  
Licia Verde
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Primordial Black Holes ◽  
Mass Distributions

scholarly journals Nonthermal production of dark matter from primordial black holes

2018 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rouzbeh Allahverdi ◽  
James Dent ◽  
Jacek Osinski
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Primordial Black Holes
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