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Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter: New Formation Scenarios and Astrophysical Effects

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Illuminating Dark Matter

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Scalar field instability can lead to a short matter dominated era, during which the matter is represented by large lumps of the scalar field, whose distribution exhibits large fluctuations, leading to copious production of primordial black holes (PBH). The PBH abundance can be sufficient to explain up to 100% of dark matter without violating observational constraints. Small PBH can destabilize neutron stars and contribute to r-process nucleosynthesis.

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Acknowledgements

I thank the Simons Foundation for support and hospitality of the Simons Symposium, which stimulated many new ideas, including a new project that K. Abazajian and I have started at Schloss Elmau. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Grant No. DE - SC0009937 as well as World Premier International (WPI) Initiative, MEXT, Japan.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1547, USA

    Alexander Kusenko

  2. 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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  1. C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Rouven Essig

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

    Jonathan Feng

  3. Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Kathryn Zurek

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Kusenko, A. (2019). Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter: New Formation Scenarios and Astrophysical Effects. In: Essig, R., Feng, J., Zurek, K. (eds) Illuminating Dark Matter. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 56. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31593-1_11

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