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Discretely Charged Dark Matter in Inflation Models Based on Holographic Space-time

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-09-20 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The Holographic Space-time (HST) model of inflation has a potential explanation for dark matter as tiny primordial black holes. Motivated by a recent paper of Barrau\cite{barrau} we propose a version of this model where some of the Inflationary Black Holes (IBHs), whose decay gives rise to the Hot Big Bang, carry the smallest value of a discrete symmetry charge. The fraction ff of IBHs carrying this charge is difficult to estimate from first principles, but we fix it by requiring that the crossover between radiation and matter domination occurs at the correct temperature Teq1eV=1028MPT_{eq} \sim 1 eV = 10^{-28} M_P. The fraction is small, f2×109f \sim 2\times 10^{-9} so we believe this gives an extremely plausible model of dark matter.

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@article{arxiv.2209.08361,
  title  = {Discretely Charged Dark Matter in Inflation Models Based on Holographic Space-time},
  author = {T. Banks and W. Fischler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.08361},
  year   = {2022}
}

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