7 papers
PBH formation and Gravitational Waves as Multi-messenger Signals of First-order Phase Transitions
Bhaskar Dutta, Cash Hauptmann, Peisi Huang +1
The collapse of false-vacuum domains during first-order phase transitions in the early Universe may lead to primordial black hole (PBH) formation whose signatures form a multimesse…
Probing New Degrees of Freedom with the Universal Tail of Primordial Black Hole Mass Functions
Kaustubh Agashe, Jae Hyeok Chang, Steven J. Clark +3
The primordial black hole (PBH) mass function today develops a low-mass evaporation tail whose shape is universal with respect to the initial PBH mass distribution. This universali…
Producing the GeV Galactic Center Excess via Cosmic Ray-Dark Matter Scattering
Bhaskar Dutta, Debopam Goswami, Jason Kumar +2
In this work, we propose a novel mechanism for generating gamma rays from the Galactic Center via scattering of cosmic-ray protons off dark matter in the Milky Way halo, in contras…
Primordial Black Holes at the Junction
James B. Dent, Bhaskar Dutta, Mudit Rai
Primordial black holes (PBHs) formed during first-order phase transitions provide a powerful link between the early-universe microphysics and observable signatures today, including…
Primordial black holes from Q-balls produced in a first-order phase transition
James B. Dent, Bhaskar Dutta, Jason Kumar +1
We consider the formation of Q-balls in false vacuum remnants during a cosmological first-order phase transition. We find that under certain circumstances Q-balls can collapse to f…
Imprints of Early Universe Cosmology on Gravitational Waves
James B. Dent, Bhaskar Dutta, Mudit Rai
We explore the potential of gravitational waves (GWs) to probe the pre-BBN era of the early universe, focusing on the effects of energy injection. Specifically, we examine a hidden…