
JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR
Date: Wednesday, 15 October
2003
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Place: 4135 Frederick Reines Hall
Speaker: Pisin Chen, Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center
Title: Might Dark
Matter Actually be Black?
Abstract: There have been proposals
that primordial black hole remnants (BHRs) are the dark matter (DM), but
the idea is somewhat vague. We argue that the generalized uncertainty principle
(GUP) may prevent black holes from evaporating completely, in a similar
way that the standard uncertainty principle prevents the hydrogen atom
from collapsing. Combining this with hybrid inflation model we show that
Planck-size BHRs can indeed provide enough abundance for dark matter. By
assuming BHR as DM, our notion imposes a constraint on the hybrid inflation
potential. We show that a wide range of hybrid inflation parameters satisfy
this constraint, and that the model is not so fine-tuned.
Host: J. Feng