Primordial black holes as dark matter

by Marco Taoso (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Wednesday 10 Nov 2021, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

P4C Edificio Paolotti (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia)

 

Asteroid-mass primordial black holes are a candidate for explaining the dark matter in our Universe. After introducing the basics of this scenario, I will present the conditions under which such black holes may have originated from a single-field model of inflation. I will then discuss the impact of non-gaussianities on their abundance and phenomenology.

Asteroid-mass primordial black holes are a candidate for explaining the dark matter in our Universe. After introducing the basics of this scenario, I will present the conditions under which such black holes may have originated from a single-field model of inflation. I will then discuss the impact of non-gaussianities on their abundance and phenomenology.

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