Primordial Black Holes from the QCD Axion

We propose a mechanism to generate primordial black holes (PBHs) that is independent of cosmological inflation and occurs slightly below the QCD phase transition. Our setup relies on the collapse of long-lived string-domain wall networks and is naturally realized in QCD axion models with domain wall...

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Autores: Ferrer, Francesc, Massó, Eduard|||0000-0001-8098-2718, Panico, Giulianio, Pujolàs Boix, Oriol|||0000-0003-4263-1110, Rompineve, Fabrizio|||0000-0001-8046-1111
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:223402
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/223402
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.101301
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cosmological modeling
Gravitational-wave observatory
Primordial black holes
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Sumario:We propose a mechanism to generate primordial black holes (PBHs) that is independent of cosmological inflation and occurs slightly below the QCD phase transition. Our setup relies on the collapse of long-lived string-domain wall networks and is naturally realized in QCD axion models with domain wall number NDW.