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Primordial black holes from fifth forces

Authors :
Javier Rubio
Luca Amendola
Christof Wetterich
Source :
Physical Review D. 97
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
American Physical Society (APS), 2018.

Abstract

Primordial black holes can be produced by a long range attractive fifth force stronger than gravity, mediated by a light scalar field interacting with nonrelativistic "heavy" particles. As soon as the energy fraction of heavy particles reaches a threshold, the fluctuations rapidly become nonlinear. The overdensities collapse into black holes or similar screened objects, without the need for any particular feature in the spectrum of primordial density fluctuations generated during inflation. We discuss whether such primordial black holes can constitute the total dark matter component in the Universe.<br />Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, published version, added clarifications and references, corrected typos

Details

ISSN :
24700029 and 24700010
Volume :
97
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review D
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....07c8f75d34a789df23e578e1ec67c270