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Primordial Black Holes as a Dark Matter Candidate
Add to Calendar 2021-10-08T13:30:00 2021-10-08T14:30:00 UTC Primordial Black Holes as a Dark Matter Candidate https://psu.zoom.us/j/95857064218?pwd=aG5QR1dkVmtNdk9CanMvaDRPNGpZUT09
Start DateFri, Oct 08, 2021
9:30 AM
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End DateFri, Oct 08, 2021
10:30 AM
Presented By
Anne Greene, University of Nottingham
Event Series: Fundamental Theory Seminar

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are black holes formed in the early Universe, for instance from the collapse of large density perturbations generated by inflation.The discovery of gravitational waves from mergers of ~10 Solar mass black hole binaries has led to increased interest in PBHs as a dark matter candidate. I will review the formation of PBHs and the limits on their abundance, with particular emphasis on microlensing constraints in the Solar mass region. I will also emphasise key open question in the field (e.g. clustering, and methods for constraining asteroid mass PBHs).