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Planck isocurvature constraint on primordial black holes lighter than a kiloton

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-07-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We demonstrate that primordial black holes (PBHs) lighter than 109g10^9 \, \text{g}, which evaporated before the Big Bang nucleosynthesis, can induce significant isocurvature perturbations due to their biased clustering amplitude and the branching ratio of the Hawking radiation differing from the abundance ratio. By leveraging the upper bound on the isocurvature perturbations from the cosmic microwave background anisotropies reported by the Planck collaboration, we derive a new upper bound on the abundance of these light PBHs.

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@article{arxiv.2503.14581,
  title  = {Planck isocurvature constraint on primordial black holes lighter than a kiloton},
  author = {TaeHun Kim and Jinn-Ouk Gong and Donghui Jeong and Dong-Won Jung and Yeong Gyun Kim and Kang Young Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.14581},
  year   = {2025}
}

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