Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper:Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2023-06-19 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are a viable candidate to comprise some or all of the dark matter and provide a unique window into the high-energy physics of the early universe. This white paper discusses the scientific motivation, current status, and future reach of observational searches for PBHs. Future observational facilities supported by DOE, NSF, and NASA will provide unprecedented sensitivity to PBHs. However, devoted analysis pipelines and theoretical modeling are required to fully leverage these novel data. The search for PBHs constitutes a low-cost, high-reward science case with significant impact on the high energy physics community.
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@article{arxiv.2203.08967,
title = {Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper:Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter},
author = {Simeon Bird and Andrea Albert and Will Dawson and Yacine Ali-Haimoud and Adam Coogan and Alex Drlica-Wagner and Qi Feng and Derek Inman and Keisuke Inomata and Ely Kovetz and Alexander Kusenko and Benjamin V. Lehmann and Julian B. Munoz and Rajeev Singh and Volodymyr Takhistov and Yu-Dai Tsai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.08967},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
22 pages, 4 figures, submission to the Snowmass 2021 process. Update to add references