Primordial black hole formation during the QCD phase transition: threshold, mass distribution and abundance
arxiv(2023)
摘要
Primordial black hole (PBH) formation during cosmic phase transitions and
annihilation periods, such as the QCD transition or the e^+e^--annihilation,
is thought to be particularly efficient due to a softening of the equation of
state. We present a detailed numerical study of PBH formation during the QCD
epoch in order to derive an accurate PBH mass function. We also briefly
consider PBH formation during the e^+e^--annihilation epoch. Our
investigation confirms that, for nearly scale-invariant spectra, PBH abundances
on the QCD scale are enhanced by a factor ∼ 10^3 compared to a purely
radiation dominated Universe. For a power spectrum producing an (almost)
scale-invariant PBH mass function outside of the transition, we find a peak
mass of M_ pbh≈ 1.9 M_⊙ with a fraction f≈ 1.5×
10^-2 of the PBHs having a mass of M_ pbh > 10 M_⊙, possibly
contributing to the LIGO-Virgo black hole merger detections. We point out that
the physics of PBH formation during the e^+e^--annihilation epoch is more
complex as it is very close to the epoch of neutrino decoupling. We argue that
neutrinos free-streaming out of overdense regions may actually hinder PBH
formation.
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