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hep-ph2018★ 112 cited
The Supercooled Universe
Pietro Baratella, Alex Pomarol, Fabrizio Rompineve
Strongly-coupled theories at the TeV can naturally drive a long period of supercooling in the early universe. Trapped into the deconfined phase, the universe could inflate and cool…
hep-ph2018★ 90 cited
Primordial Black Holes from the QCD axion
Francesc Ferrer, Eduard Masso, Giuliano Panico +2
We propose a mechanism to generate Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) which is independent of cosmological inflation and occurs slightly below the QCD phase transition. Our setup relies…