July 28, 2020 to August 6, 2020
virtual conference
Europe/Prague timezone

Primordial black hole dark matter and ways to find it

Jul 30, 2020, 8:35 AM
25m
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Talk 08. Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology

Speaker

Volodymyr Takhistov

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Primordial black holes (PBHs) constitute an attractive candidate for dark matter. I will describe a new generic mechanism for PBH formation from fragmentation of scalar fields. Then, I will revisit PBH formation from vacuum bubbles during inflation and show how resulting broad PBH mass-spectrum can simultaneously account for dark matter, reported HSC candidate, LIGO events as well as seeds of supermassive black holes. Finally, I will discuss how interactions with compact stars can shed light on small PBHs of "sublunar" mass that can compose all of the dark matter.

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