Gravitational dark matter production: Primordial black holes and UV freeze-in
Dark matter (DM) interacting only gravitationally with the standard model could have been produced in the early universe by Hawking evaporation of primordial black holes (PBH). This mechanism is viable in a large range of DM mass, spanning up to the Planck scale. However, DM is also unavoidably prod...
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| description | Dark matter (DM) interacting only gravitationally with the standard model could have been produced in the early universe by Hawking evaporation of primordial black holes (PBH). This mechanism is viable in a large range of DM mass, spanning up to the Planck scale. However, DM is also unavoidably produced by the irreducible UV gravitational freeze-in. We show that the latter mechanism sets strong bounds, excluding large regions of the parameter space favored by PBH production. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-978c60ab7eb94274a122ef7424dbdc162022-12-21T22:10:02ZengElsevierPhysics Letters B0370-26932021-04-01815136129Gravitational dark matter production: Primordial black holes and UV freeze-inNicolás Bernal0Óscar Zapata1Centro de Investigaciones, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Carrera 3 Este # 47A-15, Bogotá, Colombia; Corresponding author.Instituto de Física, Universidad de Antioquia, Calle 70 # 52-21, Apartado Aéreo 1226, Medellín, Colombia; Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34151, Trieste, ItalyDark matter (DM) interacting only gravitationally with the standard model could have been produced in the early universe by Hawking evaporation of primordial black holes (PBH). This mechanism is viable in a large range of DM mass, spanning up to the Planck scale. However, DM is also unavoidably produced by the irreducible UV gravitational freeze-in. We show that the latter mechanism sets strong bounds, excluding large regions of the parameter space favored by PBH production.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269321000691 |
| spellingShingle | Nicolás Bernal Óscar Zapata Gravitational dark matter production: Primordial black holes and UV freeze-in Physics Letters B |
| title | Gravitational dark matter production: Primordial black holes and UV freeze-in |
| title_full | Gravitational dark matter production: Primordial black holes and UV freeze-in |
| title_fullStr | Gravitational dark matter production: Primordial black holes and UV freeze-in |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gravitational dark matter production: Primordial black holes and UV freeze-in |
| title_short | Gravitational dark matter production: Primordial black holes and UV freeze-in |
| title_sort | gravitational dark matter production primordial black holes and uv freeze in |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269321000691 |
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