Primordial black holes from supercooled first-order phase transition

par Yann Gouttenoire (Tel Aviv University)

lundi 13 juin 2022, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Petit Amphi (LAPTh)

 Cosmological first-order phase transition are said strongly supercooled when the nucleation temperature is much smaller than the critical temperature. They are typical of  potentials which feature nearly scale-invariance, for which the bounce action decreases only logarithmically with time. The phase transition takes place slowly and the probability distribution of bubble nucleation time is maximally spread. Hubble patches which get percolated later than the average are hotter than the background after reheating and potentially collapse into black holes. We discuss the formation of primordial black hole by supercooled first-order phase transitions and we present two classes of particle physics models predicting such transitions.