Heling Deng
1804.10059 with Alex Vilenkin and Masaki Yamada (2018)
Tufts University
1710.02865 with Alex Vilenkin (2017)
1612.03753 with Jaume Garriga and Alex Vilenkin (2016)
1512.01819 by Jaume Garriga, Alex Vilenkin and Jun Zhang (2016)
Primordial black holes (PBHs)
inflaton
radiation
shock
early stage of evolution of \(\rho \)
BH
subcritical
subcritical spacetime
shock
supercritical
supercritical spacetime
shock
where
lower cutoff
PBH mass function (fraction of CDM in PBH with mass ~ \(M\) )
\(f(M\sim 30\ M_\odot) \sim 10^{-3} \ \to \) merger rate for LIGO events
1603.08338 by Sasaki et al. (2016)
spiky distribution