Published June 11, 1990
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Journal article
Cosmological production of black holes
Creators
- 1. Theoretical Physics Group, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA (USA)
- 2. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA (USA)
Description
It is argued that, at a first-order phase transition, false-vacuum bubbles may occasionally collapse to become black holes. If the critical temperature Tc is less than a TeV, these black holes, which have a mass proportional to MPl2/Tc, could survive until today to be the dark matter. Alternatively, evaporation of black holes could give rise to relic particle abundances
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 64
- Journal Issue
- 24
- Series
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Page Range
- 2848-2851
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 21073024
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BLACK HOLES; COSMOLOGY; CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FERMIONS; MASS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SCALAR FIELDS; VACUUM STATES
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE