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Recent population studies have searched for a subpopulation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the gravitational-wave (GW) events so far detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK), in most cases adopting a phenomenological PBH mass distribution.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-23 G. Franciolini , I. Musco , P. Pani , A. Urbano

As potential candidates of dark matter, primordial black holes (PBHs) are within the core scopes of various astronomical observations. In light of the explosive development of gravitational wave (GW) and radio astronomy, we thoroughly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-23 Yi-Fu Cai , Chao Chen , Xi Tong , Dong-Gang Wang , Sheng-Feng Yan

In this paper we review the possible mechanisms for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) during a slow-reheating period {in which the energy transfer of the inflaton field to standard model particles becomes effective at slow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Luis E. Padilla , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Tadeo D. Gomez-Aguilar , Karim A. Malik , Gabriel German

Hawking evaporation of primordial black hole (PBH), with mass $3\times 10^{-17} \lesssim M_{\rm PBH}/M_\odot \lesssim 7\times 10^{-17}$ and fractional abundance $0.01 \lesssim f_{\rm PBH} \lesssim 0.5$, well reproduces 511 keV gamma-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-17 Po-Yan Tseng , Yu-Min Yeh

We investigate the cosmology of mini Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) produced by large density perturbations that collapse during a stiff fluid domination phase. Such a phase can be realized by a runaway-inflaton model that crosses an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Ioannis Dalianis , George P. Kodaxis

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) created early in the universe are dark matter candidates. One method of detecting these PBHs is through their Hawking radiation. PBHs created with an initial mass of 5.0 x 10^14 g should be evaporating today…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-23 T. U. Ukwatta , D. Stump , J. T. Linnemann , K. Tollefson , V. Vasileiou , G. Sinnis , J. H. MacGibbon

The study of primordial black holes (PBHs) and the Hawking radiation they produce represents a significant step toward understanding the role of these phenomena in the cosmological evolution of the Universe. PBHs could be a component of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Yu. A. Lysyy , P. A. Kislitsyn , A. V. Ivanchik

Many early universe theories predict the creation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs). PBHs could have masses ranging from the Planck mass to 10^5 solar masses or higher depending on the size of the universe at formation. A Black Hole (BH) has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 T. N. Ukwatta , D. R. Stump , J. T. Linnemann , J. H. MacGibbon , S. S. Marinelli , T. Yapici , K. Tollefson

Cosmology may give rise to appreciable populations of both particle dark matter and primordial black holes (PBH) with the combined mass density providing the observationally inferred value $\Omega_{\rm DM}\approx0.26$. However, previous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Prolay Chanda , Jakub Scholtz , James Unwin

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

Here, we investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in non-minimal coupling Gauss-Bonnet inflationary model in the presence of power-law potentials. We employ a two part coupling function to enhance primordial curvatures at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-12 Milad Solbi , Kayoomars Karami

We calculate the mass distribution of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) produced during metric preheating. After inflation, the oscillations of the inflaton at the bottom of its potential source a parametric resonant instability for small-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Pierre Auclair , Vincent Vennin

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may form in the early universe when pre-existing adiabatic density fluctuations enter into the cosmological horizon and recollapse. It has been suggested that PBH formation may be facilitated when fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Jedamzik , J. C. Niemeyer

Recent observational constraints indicate that primordial black holes (PBHs) with the mass scale $\sim 10^{-12}M_{\odot}$ can explain most of dark matter in the Universe. To produce this kind of PBHs, we need an enhance in the primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 Milad Solbi , Kayoomars Karami

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a major candidate for dark matter and they have been extensively constrained across most mass ranges. However, PBHs in the mass range of $10^{17}$ - $10^{21}$ g remain a viable explanation for all dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Chen Yang , Jun-Da Pan , Xin Zhang

Ultralight primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses $\lesssim 10^{15}$g and subatomic Schwarzschild radii, produced in the early Universe, are expected to have evaporated by the current cosmic age due to Hawking radiation. Based on this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Shasvath J. Kapadia , Kanhaiya Lal Pandey , Teruaki Suyama , Parameswaran Ajith

We study the possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) can be formed from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition due to the effects of one-loop radiative corrections of Yukawa couplings between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Adeela Afzal , Anish Ghoshal

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) have not been experimentally detected so far, but their existence would provide important insights about the early Universe and serve as one of the possible candidates of dark matter (DM). In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Pratibha Jangra , Daniele Gaggero , Bradley J. Kavanagh , J. M. Diego

We investigate how Hawking radiation from low-mass primordial black holes deposits energy into the early-universe plasma and show that the resulting phenomena are hydrodynamic rather than purely diffusive. Combining analytic arguments with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Miguel Vanvlasselaer , Sokratis Trifinopoulos , Alexandra P. Klipfel , David I. Kaiser

The Hawking evaporation of primordial black holes (PBH) reheats the Universe locally, forming hot spots that survive throughout their lifetime. We propose to use the temperature profile of such hot spots to calculate the decay rate of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-15 Louis Hamaide , Lucien Heurtier , Shi-Qian Hu , Andrew Cheek