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Anchordoqui LA, Antoniadis I, Lüst D. Dark dimension, the swampland, and the dark matter fraction composed of primordial black holes. Int J Clin Exp Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.086001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Ginés EU, Mena O, Witte SJ. Revisiting constraints on WIMPs around primordial black holes. Int J Clin Exp Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.063538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Keith C, Hooper D, Linden T, Liu R. Sensitivity of future gamma-ray telescopes to primordial black holes. Int J Clin Exp Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.043003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Berteaud J, Calore F, Iguaz J, Serpico P, Siegert T. Strong constraints on primordial black hole dark matter from 16 years of INTEGRAL/SPI observations. Int J Clin Exp Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.023030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Wu YP, Pinetti E, Silk J. Cosmic Coincidences of Primordial-Black-Hole Dark Matter. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:031102. [PMID: 35119885 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.031102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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If primordial black holes (PBHs) contribute more than 10% 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 formation scenario of PBHs and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. Baryogenesis can be triggered by a sharp transition of the rolling rate of inflaton from slow-roll to (nearly) ultraslow-roll phases that produce large curvature perturbations for PBH formation in single-field inflationary models. We show that the baryogenesis requirement drives the PBH contribution to DM, along with the inferred PBH mass range, the resulting stochastic gravitational wave background frequency window, and the associated cosmic microwave background tensor-to-scalar ratio amplitude, into potentially observable regimes.
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- Yi-Peng Wu
- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE), UMR 7589 CNRS and Sorbonne Université, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE), UMR 7589 CNRS and Sorbonne Université, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris, France
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Torino and INFN, Sezione di Torino, via P. Giuria 1, I-10125 Torino, Italy
- Theoretical Astrophysics Department, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, 60510, USA
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- Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095 CNRS and Sorbonne Université, 98 bis boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
- Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom
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Carr B, Kohri K, Sendouda Y, Yokoyama J. Constraints on primordial black holes. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2021; 84:116902. [PMID: 34874316 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ac1e31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We update the constraints on the fraction of the Universe that may have gone into primordial black holes (PBHs) over the mass range 10-5to 1050 g. Those smaller than ∼1015 g would have evaporated by now due to Hawking radiation, so their abundance at formation is constrained by the effects of evaporated particles on big bang nucleosynthesis, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the Galactic and extragalacticγ-ray and cosmic ray backgrounds and the possible generation of stable Planck mass relics. PBHs larger than ∼1015 g are subject to a variety of constraints associated with gravitational lensing, dynamical effects, influence on large-scale structure, accretion and gravitational waves. We discuss the constraints on both the initial collapse fraction and the current fraction of the dark matter (DM) in PBHs at each mass scale but stress that many of the constraints are associated with observational or theoretical uncertainties. We also consider indirect constraints associated with the amplitude of the primordial density fluctuations, such as second-order tensor perturbations andμ-distortions arising from the effect of acoustic reheating on the CMB, if PBHs are created from the high-σpeaks of nearly Gaussian fluctuations. Finally we discuss how the constraints are modified if the PBHs have an extended mass function, this being relevant if PBHs provide some combination of the DM, the LIGO/Virgo coalescences and the seeds for cosmic structure. Even if PBHs make a small contribution to the DM, they could play an important cosmological role and provide a unique probe of the early Universe.
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- Bernard Carr
- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
- Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU), Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Theory Center, IPNS, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
- The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8568, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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- Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU), Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8568, Japan
- Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Trans-Scale Quantum Science Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Coogan A, Morrison L, Profumo S. Direct Detection of Hawking Radiation from Asteroid-Mass Primordial Black Holes. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:171101. [PMID: 33988411 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.171101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Revised: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Light, asteroid-mass primordial black holes, with lifetimes in the range between hundreds to several millions times the age of the Universe, are well-motivated candidates for the cosmological dark matter. Using archival COMPTEL data, we improve over current constraints on the allowed parameter space of primordial black holes as dark matter by studying their evaporation to soft gamma rays in nearby astrophysical structures. We point out that a new generation of proposed MeV gamma-ray telescopes will offer the unique opportunity to directly detect Hawking evaporation from observations of nearby dark matter dense regions and to constrain, or discover, the primordial black hole dark matter.
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- Adam Coogan
- GRAPPA, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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Dasgupta B, Laha R, Ray A. Low Mass Black Holes from Dark Core Collapse. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:141105. [PMID: 33891461 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.141105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Revised: 02/12/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Unusual masses of black holes being discovered by gravitational wave experiments pose fundamental questions about the origin of these black holes. Black holes with masses smaller than the Chandrasekhar limit ≈1.4 M_{⊙} are essentially impossible to produce through stellar evolution. We propose a new channel for production of low mass black holes: stellar objects catastrophically accrete nonannihilating dark matter, and the small dark core subsequently collapses, eating up the host star and transmuting it into a black hole. The wide range of allowed dark matter masses allows a smaller effective Chandrasekhar limit and thus smaller mass black holes. We point out several avenues to test our proposal, focusing on the redshift dependence of the merger rate. We show that redshift dependence of the merger rate can be used as a probe of the transmuted origin of low mass black holes.
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- Basudeb Dasgupta
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India
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- Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, C. V. Raman Avenue, Bengaluru 560012, India
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India
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De Luca V, Franciolini G, Riotto A. NANOGrav Data Hints at Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:041303. [PMID: 33576658 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.041303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The NANOGrav Collaboration has recently published strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process that may be interpreted as a stochastic gravitational wave background. We show that such a signal can be explained by second-order gravitational waves produced during the formation of primordial black holes from the collapse of sizeable scalar perturbations generated during inflation. This possibility has two predictions: (i) the primordial black holes may comprise the totality of the dark matter with the dominant contribution to their mass function falling in the range (10^{-15}÷10^{-11})M_{⊙} and (ii) the gravitational wave stochastic background will be seen as well by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna experiment.
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- V De Luca
- Département de Physique Théorique and Centre for Astroparticle Physics (CAP), Université de Genève, 24 quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Département de Physique Théorique and Centre for Astroparticle Physics (CAP), Université de Genève, 24 quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Département de Physique Théorique and Centre for Astroparticle Physics (CAP), Université de Genève, 24 quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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Kusenko A, Sasaki M, Sugiyama S, Takada M, Takhistov V, Vitagliano E. Exploring Primordial Black Holes from the Multiverse with Optical Telescopes. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 125:181304. [PMID: 33196269 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.181304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a viable candidate for dark matter if the PBH masses are in the currently unconstrained "sublunar" mass range. We revisit the possibility that PBHs were produced by nucleation of false vacuum bubbles during inflation. We show that this scenario can produce a population of PBHs that simultaneously accounts for all dark matter, explains the candidate event in the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) data, and contains both heavy black holes as observed by LIGO and very heavy seeds of supermassive black holes. We demonstrate with numerical studies that future observations of HSC, as well as other optical surveys, such as LSST, will be able to provide a definitive test for this generic PBH formation mechanism if it is the dominant source of dark matter.
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- Alexander Kusenko
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90095-1547, USA
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), UTIAS The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), UTIAS The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
- Center for Gravitational Physics, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), UTIAS The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), UTIAS The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90095-1547, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90095-1547, USA
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Dasgupta B, Laha R, Ray A. Neutrino and Positron Constraints on Spinning Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 125:101101. [PMID: 32955326 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.101101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Revised: 04/23/2020] [Accepted: 08/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Primordial black holes can have substantial spin-a fundamental property that has a strong effect on its evaporation rate. We conduct a comprehensive study of the detectability of primordial black holes with non-negligible spin, via the searches for the neutrinos and positrons in the MeV energy range. Diffuse supernova neutrino background searches and observation of the 511 keV gamma-ray line from positrons in the Galactic center set competitive constraints. Spinning primordial black holes are probed up to a slightly higher mass range compared to nonspinning ones. Our constraint using neutrinos is slightly weaker than that due to the diffuse gamma-ray background, but complementary and robust. Our positron constraints are typically weaker in the lower mass range and stronger in the higher mass range for the spinning primordial black holes compared to the nonspinning ones. They are generally stronger than those derived from the diffuse gamma-ray measurements for primordial black holes having masses greater than a few ×10^{16} g.
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- Basudeb Dasgupta
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India
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- Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India
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Germani C, Sheth RK. Nonlinear statistics of primordial black holes from Gaussian curvature perturbations. Int J Clin Exp Med 2020. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.101.063520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Laha R. Primordial Black Holes as a Dark Matter Candidate Are Severely Constrained by the Galactic Center 511 keV γ-Ray Line. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:251101. [PMID: 31922779 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.251101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2019] [Revised: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We derive the strongest constraint on the fraction of dark matter that can be composed of low mass primordial black holes by using the observation of the Galactic Center 511 keV γ-ray line. Primordial black holes of masses ≲10^{15} kg will evaporate to produce e^{±} pairs. The positrons will lose energy in the Galactic Center, become nonrelativistic, then annihilate with the ambient electrons. We derive robust and conservative bounds by assuming that the rate of positron injection via primordial black hole evaporation is less than what is required to explain the SPI/INTEGRAL observation of the Galactic Center 511 keV γ-ray line. Depending on the primordial black hole mass function and other astrophysical uncertainties, these constraints are the most stringent in the literature and show that primordial black holes contribute to less than 1% of the dark matter density. Our technique also probes part of the mass range which was completely unconstrained by previous studies.
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- Ranjan Laha
- Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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