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Primordial Black Holes as the Dark Matter

Seminar
Wednesday, 06.06.2018 14:00

Speakers: Sébastien Clesse (University of Namur)
Place: Seminar room n. 226, Institute of Physics, Pod vodárenskou věží 1, Prague 8
Presented in Angličtina
Organisers: Department of Particle Theory and Phenomenology
I will present the current status of primordial black holes as a Dark Matter candidate, a scenario that has recently seen a strong revival of interest. Formation models, astrophysical and cosmological constraints, as well as observations pointing towards the possible existence of primordial black holes, with abundances comparable to the one of dark matter, will be reviewed and discussed, including the gravitational waves from massive black hole mergers detected by LIGO/VIRGO. Finding evidence of even a single primordial black hole could have groundbreaking consequences for our understanding of the early Universe and of High Energy physics.