Opening the Window of Ultra-Light PBHs by Exorcising the Poltergeist

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Autores principales: Gouttenoire, Yann, Leister, Nicholas, Schwaller, Pedro
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author Gouttenoire, Yann
Leister, Nicholas
Schwaller, Pedro
author_facet Gouttenoire, Yann
Leister, Nicholas
Schwaller, Pedro
contents The hot Big Bang may have emerged from evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) lighter than $10^9$g. Standard monochromatic treatments predict nearly simultaneous evaporation, abrupt reheating, and a large Poltergeist scalar-induced gravitational wave signal. We confront this expectation with the irreducible collapse mass tail predicted by general relativity, $df_{\rm PBH}/d\ln M\propto M^{3.78}$, which smooths reheating, suppresses the signal by orders of magnitude, and reopens the ultra-light PBH window.
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spellingShingle Opening the Window of Ultra-Light PBHs by Exorcising the Poltergeist
Gouttenoire, Yann
Leister, Nicholas
Schwaller, Pedro
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
The hot Big Bang may have emerged from evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) lighter than $10^9$g. Standard monochromatic treatments predict nearly simultaneous evaporation, abrupt reheating, and a large Poltergeist scalar-induced gravitational wave signal. We confront this expectation with the irreducible collapse mass tail predicted by general relativity, $df_{\rm PBH}/d\ln M\propto M^{3.78}$, which smooths reheating, suppresses the signal by orders of magnitude, and reopens the ultra-light PBH window.
title Opening the Window of Ultra-Light PBHs by Exorcising the Poltergeist
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21477