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There has recently been renewed interest in the possibility that the dark matter in the universe consists of primordial black holes (PBHs). Current observational constraints leave only a few PBH mass ranges for this possibility. One of them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 N. Bartolo , V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , A. Lewis , M. Peloso , A. Riotto

In this paper, we investigate the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) during the radiation-dominated era. The collapse of significant density perturbations originating from large primordial scalar fluctuations generated during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Brahim Asfour , Farida Bargach , Yahya Ladghami , Ahmed Errahmani , Taoufik Ouali

Models in which dark matter consists entirely of primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses around $10^{17}$ g are currently unconstrained. However, if PBHs are a component of the Galactic dark matter density, they will inject a large flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 William DeRocco , Peter W. Graham

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) remain a Dark Matter (DM) candidate of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Previously, we proposed a new method of constraining the remaining PBH DM mass range using microlensing of stars monitored by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Agnieszka M. Cieplak , Kim Griest

We study the generation of primordial black holes (PBH) in a single field inflection point model of inflation wherein the effective potential is expanded up to the sextic order and the inversion symmetry is imposed such that only even…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-20 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Rajeev Kumar Jain

We propose that the kinematical observations of dwarf galaxies can be used to constrain the primordial black hole's (PBH) abundance in dark matter since the presence of primordial black holes in star clusters will lead to the radial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 Bo-Qiang Lu , Yue-Liang Wu

The phenomenology of primordial black hole (PBH) physics and the associated PBH abundance constraints, can be used in order to probe the physics of the early Universe. In this work, we investigate the PBH formation during the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-21 Shreya Banerjee , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We consider the early Universe scenario which allows for production of non-Gaussian curvature perturbations at small scales. We study the peculiarities of a formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) connected with the non-Gaussianity. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-12 E. V. Bugaev , P. A. Klimai

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are significant sources of axions and axion-like particles (ALPs), provided their Hawking temperature exceeds the particles' masses. Given the predominant decay of axions into photons, the enhanced photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Yongsoo Jho , Tae-Geun Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seong Chan Park , Yeji Park

Primordial Black Hole (PBH) is one of the leading non-particle candidates for dark matter (DM). Although several observations severely constrain the amount of PBHs, it is recently pointed out that there is an uncertainty on the microlensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Blue primordial power spectra with a spectral index $n>1$ can lead to a significant production of primordial black holes in the very early Universe. The evaporation of these objects leads to a number of observational consequences and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James E. Lidsey , B. J. Carr , J. H. Gilbert

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

We study the matter power spectrum constraint on primordial black holes (PBH) by the dark matter (DM) emitted through Hawking radiation. We particularly focus on the scenario where PBH, with mass ranges between 1g and $10^9$g, evaporates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Yu-Ming Chen

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are those which may have formed in the early Universe and affected the subsequent evolution of the Universe through their Hawking radiation and gravitational field. To constrain the early Universe from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Tomohiro Harada

In this paper, we review in detail different mechanisms of generation of large primordial fluctuations and their implications for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and scalar-induced secondary gravity waves (SIGW), with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-28 Sayantan Choudhury , M. Sami

We investigate constraints on the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range 10^{15}-10^{17} g using data from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and MeV extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). Hawking radiation from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Steven Clark , Bhaskar Dutta , Yu Gao , Louis E. Strigari , Scott Watson

A rigorous constraint analysis on cosmic inflation entails several probes which collectively survey an extensive range of energy scales. We complement the cosmic microwave background data with an updated compilation of the cosmic abundance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Jurgen Mifsud , Carsten van de Bruck

We study the effect on the primordial cosmological perturbations of a sharp transition from inflationary to a radiation and matter dominated epoch respectively. We assume that the perturbations are generated by the vacuum fluctuations of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-17 Ignacio Zaballa , Misao Sasaki

Cosmic ray antiprotons can originate from dark matter annihilating into quarks that subsequently decay into antiprotons. Evaporation of primordial black holes also can produce a significant antiproton flux. Since the spectrum of secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Ormes , A. Moiseev , J. Wells