Discretely Charged Dark Matter in Inflation Models Based on Holographic Space-Time

Autor: Tom Banks, Willy Fischler
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Universe, Vol 8, Iss 11, p 600 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2218-1997
DOI: 10.3390/universe8110600
Popis: The holographic space-time (HST) model of inflation has a potential explanation for dark matter as tiny primordial black holes. Motivated by a recent paper of Barrau, we propose a version of this model where some of the inflationary black holes (IBHs), whose decay gives rise to the Hot Big Bang, carry the smallest value of a discrete symmetry charge. The fraction f of IBHs carrying this charge is difficult to estimate from first principles, but we determine it by requiring that the crossover between radiation and matter domination occurs at the correct temperature Teq∼1eV=10−28MP. The fraction is small, f∼2×10−9, so we believe this gives an extremely plausible model of dark matter.
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