Primordial black-hole dark matter via warm natural inflation

Miguel Correa; Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay; Nur Jaman; Grant J. Mathews

Physics Letters B (Dec 2022)

Primordial black-hole dark matter via warm natural inflation

Miguel Correa,
Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay,
Nur Jaman,
Grant J. Mathews

Affiliations

Miguel Correa: Center for Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA
Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay: Centre For Cosmology and Science Popularization (CCSP), SGT University, Gurugram, Delhi- NCR, Haryana, 122505, India; Corresponding authors.
Nur Jaman: Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, 741 246, WB, India; Corresponding authors.
Grant J. Mathews: Center for Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 835
p. 137510

Abstract

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We report on a study of the natural warm inflationary paradigm (WNI). We show two important new results arise in this model. One is that the observational constraints on the primordial power spectrum from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be satisfied without going beyond the Planck scale of the effective field theory. The second is that WNI can inevitably provide perfect conditions for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the golden window of black-hole mass range (10−16−10−11M⊙) where it can account for all of the dark matter content of the universe while satisfying observational constraints.

Published in Physics Letters B

ISSN: 0370-2693 (Print); 1873-2445 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Physics
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