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Axion dark matter (DM) is studied on the formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high red shift $z$. It is shown that the attractive self interaction of this DM may solve the tension between the high angular momentum of SMBH and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-27 Takeshi Fukuyama

We revisit the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) by a U(1) gauge field with a pseudo-scalar coupling to the inflaton. We improve upon the existing literature by working in the homogeneous backreaction regime with numerically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Gabriele Franciolini , Nadir Ijaz , Marco Peloso

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) could dominate in the early universe and, evaporating before Big bang Nucleosynthesis, can provide new freeze in mechanism of dark matter (DM) production. The proposed scenario is considered for two possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-11 Pratik Chattopadhyay , Arnab Chaudhuri , Maxim Yu. Khlopov

The inflationary diffusion of (pseudo-)scalar fields with discrete symmetries can seed the formation of a gas of closed domain walls after inflation, when the distance between degenerate minima in field space is not too far from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Miguel Faria , Ricardo Z. Ferreira , Fabrizio Rompineve

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are the natural candidate of dark matter (DM) as they only interact gravitationally and can evade any experiments on earth. In the standard semiclassical calculation of Hawking radiation, PBHs with mass below…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Ngo Phuc Duc Loc

We propose a mechanism to generate Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) which is independent of cosmological inflation and occurs slightly below the QCD phase transition. Our setup relies on the collapse of long-lived string-domain wall networks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Francesc Ferrer , Eduard Masso , Giuliano Panico , Oriol Pujolas , Fabrizio Rompineve

Dark matter (DM) interacting only gravitationally with the standard model could have been produced in the early universe by Hawking evaporation of primordial black holes (PBH). This mechanism is viable in a large range of DM mass, spanning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-10 Nicolás Bernal , Óscar Zapata

Ultra-low mass primordial black holes (PBH), which may briefly dominate the energy density of the universe but completely evaporate before the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), can lead to interesting observable signatures. In our previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Anish Ghoshal , Rajeev Kumar Jain , Marek Lewicki

Sufficiently light primordial black holes (PBH) could evaporate in the very early universe and dilute the preexisting baryon asymmetry and/or the frozen density of stable relics. The effect is especially strong in the case that PBHs decayed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 A. Chaudhuri , A. Dolgov

We study axion dark matter production from a misalignment mechanism in scenarios featuring a general nonstandard cosmology. Before the onset of Big Bang nucleosynthesis, the energy density of the universe is dominated by a particle field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-13 Paola Arias , Nicolás Bernal , Dimitrios Karamitros , Carlos Maldonado , Leszek Roszkowski , Moira Venegas

The QCD axion can solve the Strong CP Problem and be the dark matter of our universe. If the PQ symmetry breaking scale associated with the axion is below the inflationary reheating temperature, axion strings and domain walls populate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-04 David I. Dunsky , Marius Kongsore

We study the formation of asteroid-mass Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) as a dark matter candidate in supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model. We show that the presence of heavy particles predicted in the Minimal Supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Andrea Boccia , Marco Chianese

We examine the extent to which primordial black holes (PBHs) can constitute the observed dark matter while also giving rise to the measured matter-antimatter asymmetry and account for the observed baryon abundance through asymmetric Hawking…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Alexis Boudon , Benjamin Bose , Hyat Huang , Lucas Lombriser

We revisit the role of primordial black holes (PBHs) as potential dark matter (DM) candidates, particularly focusing on light asteroid-mass PBHs. These PBHs are expected to emit particles through Hawking evaporation that can generate cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-26 Pedro De la Torre Luque , Jordan Koechler , Shyam Balaji

Axions are some of the best motivated particles beyond the Standard Model. We show how the attractive self-interactions of dark matter (DM) axions over a broad range of masses, from $10^{-22}$ eV to $10^7$ GeV, can lead to nongravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Asimina Arvanitaki , Savas Dimopoulos , Marios Galanis , Luis Lehner , Jedidiah O. Thompson , Ken Van Tilburg

Particulate Dark Matter (DM), completely isolated from the Standard Model particle sector, can be produced in the early universe from Primordial Black Hole (PBH) evaporation. However, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) observations put an upper…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-21 Arnab Chaudhuri , Baradhwaj Coleppa , Kousik Loho

If primordial black holes (PBHs) contribute more than 10 percent of the dark matter (DM) density, their energy density today is of the same order as that of the baryons. Such a cosmic coincidence might hint at a mutual origin for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-28 Yi-Peng Wu , Elena Pinetti , Joseph Silk

The entropy production prior to BBN era is one of ways to prevent QCD axion with the decay constant $F_{a}\in[10^{12}{\rm GeV},10^{16}{\rm GeV}]$ from overclosing the universe when the misalignment angle is $\theta_{\rm i}=\mathcal{O}(1)$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-02 Gongjun Choi , Enrico D. Schiappacasse

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can be produced in the very early Universe due to the large density fluctuations. The cosmic background of axion-like particles (ALPs) could be non-thermally generated by PBHs. In this paper, we investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Hai-Jun Li

We consider the possibility of indirect detection of dark sector processes by investigating a novel form of interaction between ambient dark matter (DM) and primordial black holes (PBHs). The basic scenario we envisage is that the ambient…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Kaustubh Agashe , Manuel Buen-Abad , Jae Hyeok Chang , Steven J. Clark , Bhaskar Dutta , Yuhsin Tsai , Tao Xu