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Dark gauge fields have been discussed as candidates for dark matter recently. If they existed, primordial dark magnetic fields during inflation would have existed. It is believed that primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) arise out of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-09 Sugumi Kanno , Ann Mukuno , Jiro Soda , Kazushige Ueda

We explore cosmological magnetogenesis in the post-inflationary universe, when the inflaton oscillates around its potential minimum and the universe is effectively dominated by cold matter. During this epoch prior to reheating, large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-29 Takeshi Kobayashi

Primordial black holes may have been produced in the early stages of the thermal history of the Universe after cosmic inflation. If so, dark matter in the form of elementary particles can be subsequently accreted around these objects, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-03 Mathieu Boudaud , Thomas Lacroix , Martin Stref , Julien Lavalle , Pierre Salati

(Abridged) Ultracompact Minihaloes (UCMHs), which formed by dark matter accretion onto primordial black holes (PBHs) or initial dark matter overdensity produced by the primordial density perturbation, provide a new type of compact dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Dong Zhang

With the basic $\alpha$-attractor potentials, we investigate an inflationary regime in the high-$k$ limit, where the cosmological perturbation breaks down due to large enhancement in the scalar power spectrum and generation of large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-08 Chitrak Sarkar , Arunoday Sarkar , Basundhara Ghosh , Buddhadeb Ghosh

We constrain a primordial magnetic field (PMF) generated during a phase transition (PT) using the big bang nucleosynthesis bound on the relativistic energy density. The amplitude of the PMF at large scales is determined by the shape of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-04 Tina Kahniashvili , Alexander G. Tevzadze , Bharat Ratra

The possibility that a relevant fraction of the dark matter might be comprised of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) has been seriously reconsidered after LIGO's detection of a $\sim 30 M_{\odot}$ binary black holes merger. Despite the strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 José Luis Bernal , Nicola Bellomo , Alvise Raccanelli , Licia Verde

The nonbaryonic dark matter of the Universe is assumed to consist of new stable forms of matter. Their stability reflects symmetry of micro world and mechanisms of its symmetry breaking. In the early Universe heavy metastable particles can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-22 K. M. Belotsky , A. D. Dmitriev , E. A. Esipova , V. A. Gani , A. V. Grobov , M. Yu. Khlopov , A. A. Kirillov , S. G. Rubin , I. V. Svadkovsky

We investigate the impact of a stochastic background of Primordial Magnetic Fields (PMF) generated before recombination on the ionization history of the Universe and on the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB). Pre-recombination PMFs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-28 D. Paoletti , J. Chluba , F. Finelli , J. A. Rubino-Martin

Models of Co-Decaying dark matter lead to an early matter dominated epoch -- prior to BBN -- which results in an enhancement of the growth of dark matter substructure. If these primordial structures collapse further they can form primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Julian Georg , Brandon Melcher , Scott Watson

We propose a mechanism for the generation of magnetic fields on cosmological scales that is operative after recombination. An essential ingredient is an instability (of parametric resonance type) of the electromagnetic field driven by an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-27 Robert Brandenberger , Jürg Fröhlich , Hao Jiao

We explore the effects of magnetic energy dissipation on the formation of the first stars. For this purpose, we follow the evolution of primordial chemistry in the presence of magnetic fields in the post-recombination universe until the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Daniele Galli , Simon C. O. Glover , Robi Banerjee , Francesco Palla , Raffaella Schneider , Ralf S. Klessen

During a cosmological first-order phase transition in a dark sector, fermion dark matter particles $\chi$ can form macroscopic Fermi balls that collapse to primordial black holes (PBHs) under certain conditions. The evaporation of the PBHs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Danny Marfatia , Po-Yan Tseng

We review the formation and evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) and their possible contribution to dark matter. Various constraints suggest they could only provide most of it in the mass windows $10^{17}$ - $10^{23}\,$g or $10$ -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-03 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel

In this paper we show that the Universe is already strongly magnetized at very early epochs during cosmic evolution. Our calculations are based on the efficient amplification of weak magnetic seed fields, which are unavoidably present in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-09 Jacques M. Wagstaff , Robi Banerjee , Dominik Schleicher , Guenter Sigl

Formation of significant number of primordial black holes (PBHs) is realized if and only if primordial density fluctuations have a large amplitude, which means that tensor perturbations generated from these scalar perturbations as a second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-06 Ryo Saito , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Primordial black holes (PBH) could account for variety of phenomena like dark matter, reionization of the Universe, early quasars, coalescence of black holes registered through gravitational waves recently. Each phenomenon relates to PBH of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 K. M. Belotsky , A. A. Kirillov , N. O. Nazarova , S. G. Rubin

Magnetic fields are everywhere in nature and they play an important role in every astronomical environment which involves the formation of plasma and currents. It is natural therefore to suppose that magnetic fields could be present in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-22 Dai G. Yamazaki , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Toshitaka Kajino , Grant J. Mathew

We explore the amplification of magnetic seed fields during the formation of the first stars and galaxies. During gravitational collapse, turbulence is created from accretion shocks, which may act to amplify weak magnetic fields in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Robi Banerjee , Sharanya Sur , Tigran G. Arshakian , Ralf S. Klessen , Rainer Beck , Marco Spaans

Sufficiently strong and long-lasting first-order phase transitions can produce primordial black holes (PBHs) that contribute substantially to the dark matter abundance of the Universe, and can produce large-scale primordial magnetic fields.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Shyam Balaji , João Gonçalves , Danny Marfatia , António P. Morais , Roman Pasechnik