How open is the asteroid-mass primordial black hole window?

被引:4
作者
Gorton, Matthew [1 ]
Green, Anne M. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nottingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England
来源
SCIPOST PHYSICS | 2024年 / 17卷 / 02期
关键词
PARTICLE EMISSION RATES; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; CONSTRAINTS;
D O I
10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.2.032
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Primordial black holes (PBHs) can make up all of the dark matter (DM) if their mass, m , is in the so-called 'asteroid-mass window', 1017 17 g <= m <= 1022 22 g. Observational constraints on the abundance of PBHs are usually calculated assuming they all have the same mass, however this is unlikely to be a good approximation. PBHs formed from the collapse of large density perturbations during radiation domination are expected to have an extended mass function (MF), due to the effects of critical collapse. The PBH MF is often assumed to be lognormal, however it has recently been shown that other functions are a better fit to numerically calculated MFs. We recalculate both current and potential future constraints for these improved fitting functions. We find that for current constraints the asteroid-mass window narrows, but remains open (i.e. all of the DM can be in the form of PBHs) unless the PBH MF is wider than expected. Future evaporation and microlensing constraints may together exclude all of the DM being in PBHs, depending on the width of the PBH MF and also the shape of its low and high mass tails.
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