Ruling out Initially Clustered Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2022-11-16 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Combining constraints from microlensing and Lyman- forest, we provide a simple argument to show that large spatial clustering of stellar-mass primordial black holes at the time of formation, such as the one induced by the presence of large non-Gaussianities, is ruled out. Therefore, it is not possible to evade existing constraints preventing stellar-mass primordial black holes to be a dominant constituent of the dark matter by boosting their initial clustering.
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@article{arxiv.2208.01683,
title = {Ruling out Initially Clustered Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter},
author = {V. De Luca and G. Franciolini and A. Riotto and H. Veermäe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.01683},
year = {2022}
}
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5 pages + supplementary material. 2 figures. v2: matching version published in PRL