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Microscopic primordial black holes as macroscopic dark matter from large extra dimensions

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-04-17 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the coupled cosmological evolution of primordial black holes (PBHs) and radiation in the Arkani-Hamed-Dimopoulos-Dvali (ADD) framework with nn large extra dimensions and a fundamental gravity scale MM_\star at the TeV scale. For PBHs with horizon radius smaller than the compactification scale, the higher-dimensional geometry implies a larger horizon size at fixed mass and therefore a suppressed Hawking temperature. As a result, radiation accretion can overcome evaporation in the early Universe and drive a ``runaway'' phase of rapid mass growth. By numerically solving the coupled mass and energy-density evolution equations, we show that for n2n \geq 2 initially microscopic PBHs with initial mass Mi1012M_i \gtrsim 10^{12}\,g can grow by many orders of magnitude and potentially reach macroscopic, even solar-mass, scales by matter-radiation equality. We determine the critical initial abundance βcrit\beta_{\rm crit} required for PBHs to account for the observed dark matter density and find that extra dimensions dramatically lower this threshold, allowing viable scenarios with βcrit1044\beta_{\rm crit}\sim 10^{-44}. This identifies a previously unexplored region of parameter space in which the dark matter abundance is achieved through dynamical mass growth rather than large initial collapse fractions.

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@article{arxiv.2604.14871,
  title  = {Microscopic primordial black holes as macroscopic dark matter from large extra dimensions},
  author = {Giuseppe Filiberto Vitale and Gaetano Lambiase and Tanmay Kumar Poddar and Luca Visinelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.14871},
  year   = {2026}
}

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14 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, comments are welcome