Cosmological gravitational particle production and its implications for cosmological relics

EW Kolb, AJ Long - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024 - APS
Cosmological gravitational particle production (CGPP) is the creation of particles in an
expanding universe due solely to their gravitational interaction. These particles can play an …

Primordial black hole constraints with Hawking radiation—A review

J Auffinger - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Primordial black holes are under intense scrutiny since the detection of gravitational waves
from mergers of Solar-mass black holes in 2015. More recently, the development of …

Distinct signatures of spinning PBH domination and evaporation: doubly peaked gravitational waves, dark relics and CMB complementarity

N Bhaumik, A Ghoshal, RK Jain, M Lewicki - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Ultra-low mass primordial black holes (PBH), which may briefly dominate the
energy density of the universe but completely evaporate before the big bang …

Evaporation of primordial black holes in the early Universe: Mass and spin distributions

A Cheek, L Heurtier, YF Perez-Gonzalez, J Turner - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Many cosmological phenomena lead to the production of primordial black holes in the early
Universe. These phenomena often create a population of black holes with extended mass …

Leptogenesis, primordial gravitational waves, and PBH-induced reheating

B Barman, SJ Das, MR Haque, Y Mambrini - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We explore the possibility of producing the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the
Universe uniquely from the evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) that are formed in …

Limits on light primordial black holes from high-scale leptogenesis

R Calabrese, M Chianese, J Gunn, G Miele, S Morisi… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We investigate the role that the evaporation of light primordial black holes may have played
in the production of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe through high-scale leptogenesis …

Imprint of PBH domination on gravitational waves generated by cosmic strings

D Borah, SJ Das, R Roshan, R Samanta - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study the effect of an ultralight primordial black hole (PBH) dominated phase on the
gravitational wave (GW) spectrum generated by a cosmic string (CS) network formed as a …

Probing the origin of primordial black holes through novel gravitational wave spectrum

IK Banerjee, UK Dey - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this article we investigate the cumulative stochastic gravitational wave spectra as a tool to
gain insight on the creation mechanism of primordial black holes. We consider gravitational …

Constraining burdened PBHs with gravitational waves

B Barman, K Loho, Ó Zapata - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the implications of memory burden on the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum
arising from the Hawking evaporation of light primordial black holes (PBHs). By considering …

Rescuing gravitational-reheating in chaotic inflation

B Barman, N Bernal, J Rubio - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We show, within the single-field inflationary paradigm, that a linear non-minimal interaction ξ
MP ϕ R between the inflaton field ϕ and the Ricci scalar R can result in successful inflation …