Primordial Black Hole Formation by Vacuum Bubbles
Heling Deng
1710.02865 with Alex Vilenkin
Tufts University
- dynamics & spacetime
- results
- simulation setup
- observations
- results
- simulation setup
- observations
- dynamics & spacetime

inflaton
radiation
BH
subcritical

subcritical spacetime
subcritical BH mass
1512.01819 by Jaume Garriga, Alex Vilenkin and Jun Zhang (2016)
- bubble mass doesn't change much after bubble decouples from Hubble flow
- bubble doesn't grow much before it decouples from Hubble flow
supercritical

supercritical spacetime

supercritical BH mass
upper bound:
1612.03753 with Jaume Garriga and Alex Vilenkin (2016)
- results
- simulation setup
- observations
- dynamics & spacetime
metric
fluid
radiation
comoving gauge
BH apparent horizon
Misner-Sharp mass
boundary condition
outer: FRW solutions
inner: junction conditions
initial condition
...
- results
- simulation setup
- observations
- dynamics & spacetime
early stage of evolution of ρ
evolution of ρ after BH formation (subcritical)
evolution of ρ after BH formation (supercritical)

supercritical
subcritical
mass of BH formed by vacuum bubbles
where
bubble size distribution
number density
PBH mass function (fraction of CDM in PBH with mass ~ M )

BH mass distribution
total fraction of CDM in PBH
- results
- simulation setup
- observations
- dynamics & spacetime
observational constraints on monochromatic PBH

observational constraints → our fPBH

1705.05567 by Carr et al. (2017)
LIGO PBH?
f(M∼30 M⊙)∼10−3 → merger rate for LIGO events
1603.08338 by Sasaki et al. (2016)

Conclusions
- a subcritical bubble collapses into an ordinary BH
- PBH formed by vacuum bubbles can have a distinct, wide range of mass spectrum
- a supercritical bubble has an inflating baby universe connected to our universe by a wormhole
- vacuum bubbles may nucleate during inflation, leading to the formation of BHs
- can make up 10% of DM and account for LIGO BHs
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