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The mass distribution of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) is affected by drops in the pressure of the early Universe plasma. For example, events in the standard model of particle physics, such as the $W^\pm/Z^0$ decoupling, the quark-hadron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Matteo Braglia , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

We investigate the sensitivity of reheating history on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs). Contrary to the monochromatic case of mass fraction of PBH, reheating era with different e-folding and equation-of-state can have a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Rong-Gen Cai , Tong-Bo Liu , Shao-Jiang Wang

We compute the relic abundance of dark matter in the presence of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) beyond the semiclassical approximation. We take into account the quantum corrections due to the memory burden effect, which is assumed to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-01 Md Riajul Haque , Suvashis Maity , Debaprasad Maity , Yann Mambrini

The possibility that Dark Matter (DM) is partially or totally constituted by stable Planckian remnants of light Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), suggested for instance by Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), is investigated. Distinct phenomenological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Antoine Dierckx , Sébastien Clesse , Francesca Vidotto

The redshifted 21cm radio signal has emerged as an important probe for investigating the dynamics of the dark age Universe (recombination to reionization). In the current analysis, we explore the combined effect of primordial black hole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-10 Ashadul Halder , Shibaji Banerjee

We study the allowed primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter abundance in the mixed dark matter scenarios consisting of PBHs and self-annihilating weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with a velocity dependent annihilation cross…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Kenji Kadota , Hiroyuki Tashiro

We consider constraints on primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $( 10^{-18}\text{-}10^{15} )\,M_{\odot}$ if the dark matter (DM) comprises weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) which form halos around them and generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel , Luca Visinelli

The model in which Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) constitute a non-negligible fraction of the dark matter has (re)gained popularity after the first detections of binary black hole mergers. Most of the observational constraints to date have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-11 Nicola Bellomo , José Luis Bernal , Alvise Raccanelli , Licia Verde

This thesis by publication is devoted to the study of aspects of the early universe in the context of primordial black hole (PBH) physics. Firstly, we review the fundamentals of the early universe cosmology and we recap the basics of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-04 Theodoros Papanikolaou

Primordial black holes (PBHs) provide a unique probe of the early Universe. Their cosmological evolution is governed by the competition between mass accretion and Hawking evaporation. In this paper we look into the details impact of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Jitumani Kalita , Debaprasad Maity

We use Planck data released in 2015 to constrain the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in dark matter in two different reionization models (one is the instantaneous reionization and the other is the asymmetric reionization), and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Lu Chen , Qing-Guo Huang , Ke Wang

We investigate five-dimensional rotating primordial black holes (PBHs) as dark matter candidates within the Dark Dimension (DD) scenario motivated by the Swampland Program. In this framework, a micron-scale extra dimension suppresses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-14 Waqas Ahmed , George K. Leontaris

Cosmic-ray (CR) positrons are relatively rare due to their secondary origin and thus sensitive to exotic contributions. Primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses above $\sim 5\times10^{14}\,\mathrm{g}$ can be stable sources of CR positrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-08 Jia-Zhi Huang , Yu-Feng Zhou

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) with a mass $M \lesssim {10^{17}}$g are expected to inject sub-GeV electrons and positrons in the Galaxy via Hawking radiation. These cosmic rays are shielded by the solar magnetic field for Earth-bound…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-06 Mathieu Boudaud , Marco Cirelli

Primordial black holes (PBHs) have been proposed to explain at least a portion of dark matter. Observations have put strong constraints on PBHs in terms of the fraction of dark matter which they can represent, $f_{\rm PBH}$, across a wide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Jie-Shuang Wang , Antonio Herrera-Martín , Yi-Ming Hu

Mounting evidence suggests that the semi-classical description of a black hole breaks down at the latest after losing an O(1) fraction of its mass. As a result, effects such as memory burden can slow down evaporation so that small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 Will Barker , Benjamin Gladwyn , Sebastian Zell

It has been proposed that the short period gamma-ray bursts, which occur at a rate of $\sim 10 {\rm yr^{-1}}$, may be evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs). Calculations of the present PBH evaporation rate have traditionally assumed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Anne M. Green

Current multi-tonne-scale dark matter (DM) detectors are largely incapable of detecting light dark matter from the Galactic halo due to the energy threshold limitations of their recoil measurements. However, primordial black holes (PBHs)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 Sk Jeesun , Anirban Majumdar , Rahul Srivastava

The recent observations of the global 21cm signal by EDGES and gravitational waves by LIGO/VIGO have revived interest in PBHs. Different from previous works, we investigate the influence of PBHs on the evolution of the IGM for the mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-29 Yupeng Yang

Some of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole (IMBH) candidates observed at the center of galaxies or in globular clusters and some of the Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) seen at the center of many galaxies might be of primordial origin.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 J. L. G. Sobrinho , P. Augusto