New bounds on Memory Burdened Primordial Black Holes from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

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Main Authors: Chaudhuri, Arnab, Kohri, Kazunori, Thoss, Valentin
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author Chaudhuri, Arnab
Kohri, Kazunori
Thoss, Valentin
author_facet Chaudhuri, Arnab
Kohri, Kazunori
Thoss, Valentin
contents Primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses below $10^9\,\rm{g}$ are typically assumed to have negligible cosmological impact due to their rapid evaporation via Hawking radiation. However, the 'memory burden' effect, which is a quantum suppression of PBH evaporation, can dramatically alter their decay dynamics. In this work, we revisit early-Universe constraints on ultralight PBHs in this mass range, demonstrating that memory burden significantly alters previous constraints. We compute new cosmological bounds from BBN that strongly limit the presence of ultralight PBHs in the early Universe. We report that the PBHs in the mass range $10^0$-$10^2\,\rm{g}$ for $k=2$ are unconstrained by observations.
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spellingShingle New bounds on Memory Burdened Primordial Black Holes from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Chaudhuri, Arnab
Kohri, Kazunori
Thoss, Valentin
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses below $10^9\,\rm{g}$ are typically assumed to have negligible cosmological impact due to their rapid evaporation via Hawking radiation. However, the 'memory burden' effect, which is a quantum suppression of PBH evaporation, can dramatically alter their decay dynamics. In this work, we revisit early-Universe constraints on ultralight PBHs in this mass range, demonstrating that memory burden significantly alters previous constraints. We compute new cosmological bounds from BBN that strongly limit the presence of ultralight PBHs in the early Universe. We report that the PBHs in the mass range $10^0$-$10^2\,\rm{g}$ for $k=2$ are unconstrained by observations.
title New bounds on Memory Burdened Primordial Black Holes from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20717