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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-α\alpha 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