HEP Group Meeting: Howard Marcell

October 24, 2023 - 12:30pm

Current and Future Constraints of Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates

Abstract: Primordial black holes (PBHs) are plausible dark matter candidates that formed from the gravitational collapse of primordial density fluctuations. In this talk, I will be going over the present constraints that have been placed on PBHs as dark matter candidates as well as providing a possible new method to probe the unconstrained regions in the PBH parameter space by considering elastic scattering with cosmological gravitational wave backgrounds.

Location and Address

321 Allen hall & Zoom
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