Particle Physics in Paris
Primordial black holes as dark matter
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Library, 4th floor (LPTHE)
Library, 4th floor
LPTHE
Description
Recently discovered new mechanisms for primordial black hole (PBH) formation make them a plausible candidate for dark matter in a broad range of models. For example, PBHs appear to be a generic dark matter candidate in supersymmetric models. Another example: fermions provided with Yukawa interactions can form PBH during the radiation dominated era or matter dominated era. I will review the new formation scenarios for PBH, as well as the astrophysical consequences and the ongoing search for PBH dark matter.