Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-06-16
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 024024
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 7 figures, minor conceptual clarifications included, references added, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.024024
We perform an accurate computation of the production rate for primordial black holes (PBHs). The reason is that the underlying mass variance had been overestimated systematically, as was shown recently. For scale-free powerlaw primordial spectra, and for a Universe with critical density, the mass variance is less than 34% of its value thought earlier for the spectral index in the range $1\leq n\leq 1.3$. We then extend our study to spectra with a characteristic scale and find the accurate shape of the corresponding mass variance. For a pure step in the primordial spectrum, the step in the variance is smoothed around the characteristic scale $k_s$. For a spectrum with large oscillations near $k_s$, we find a pronounced bump in the variance. This could yield a significant part of the cold dark matter in the form of PBHs with mass $M$ in the range $5\times 10^{15} {\rm g}\lesssim M \lesssim 10^{21} {\rm g}$.
Blais David
Bringmann Torsten
Kiefer Claus
Polarski David
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