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Regurgitated Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-10-01 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present a new paradigm for the production of the dark matter (DM) relic abundance based on the evaporation of early Universe primordial black holes (PBHs) themselves formed from DM particles. As a concrete realization, we consider a minimal model of the dark sector in which a first-order phase transition results in the formation of Fermiball remnants that collapse to PBHs, which then emit DM particles. We show that the regurgitated DM scenario allows for DM in the mass range 1\sim1 GeV 1016- \,10^{16} GeV, thereby unlocking parameter space considered excluded.

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@article{arxiv.2309.05703,
  title  = {Regurgitated Dark Matter},
  author = {TaeHun Kim and Philip Lu and Danny Marfatia and Volodymyr Takhistov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05703},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

12 pages, 2 figures; matches publication as Letter in Physical Review D

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