Primordial Black Holes from the QCD Axion

Ferrer, Francesc; Masso, Eduard; Panico, Giuliano; Pujolas, Oriol; Rompineve, Fabrizio

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.101301

Title: Primordial Black Holes from the QCD Axion

Journal Article · Wed Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.101301· OSTI ID:1499214

Ferrer, Francesc; Masso, Eduard; Panico, Giuliano; Pujolas, Oriol; Rompineve, Fabrizio

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 N_DW > 1 and Peccei-Quinn symmetry broken after inflation. In our framework, dark matter is mostly composed of axions in the meV mass range along with a small fraction, Ω_PBH ≳ 10^–6Ω_CDM of heavy M ~ 10⁴ – 10⁷ M_⊙ PBHs. The latter could play a role in alleviating some of the shortcomings of the standard cosmological model on subgalactic scales. The scenario might have distinct signatures in ongoing axion searches as well as gravitational wave observatories.

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Research Organization:: Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Spanish Ministry MEC; Severo Ochoa excellence program of MINECO; Generalitat de Catalunya

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-91ER40628; SC0017987; FPA2014-55613-P; SO-2012- 0234; SEV-2016- 0588; 2014- SGR-1450

OSTI ID:: 1499214

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1610167

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Vol. 122 Journal Issue: 10; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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