New mechanism of primordial black hole formation during reheating

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Luis Padilla (UNAM, Mexico)

In this talk, we consider a scenario in which an extended reheating scenario can be described analogously to the so-called scalar field dark matter model. We explore the possibility of primordial black holes (PBHs) forming from the gravitational collapse of either the structures virialized during reheating (referred as inflaton halos or inflaton clusters), or from the collapse of the central core of these configurations (referred as inflaton stars). We compute the threshold amplitude for the density contrast to undergo this process, for both the free and self-interacting scalar fields. We discuss our results in light of the constraints to PBHs abundances at the lower end of the mass spectrum and apply our findings to an example inflationary scenario.

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