9 papers
Primordial Black Hole Triggered Type Ia Supernovae II: Comparison with Supernova Remnants and Galactic Chemical Evolution
Shing-Chi Leung, Seth Walther, Alexander Kusenko +2
The asteroid-mass class of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) is one of the candidates for the dark matter in the universe. With a mass between $4 \times 10^{-17} < M_{\rm PBH} < 4 \tim…
The free-streaming length of dark matter from JWST observations of 28 strong gravitational lenses
D. Gilman, A. M. Nierenberg, T. Treu +24
The formation of gravitationally bound overdensities of dark matter (DM), or \textit{halos}, is a generic prediction of theories with particle DM. We present a measurement of halo…
Measurement of the minimum cold dark matter halo mass with strong gravitational lensing
A. M. Nierenberg, D. Gilman, T. Treu +19
We explore the lowest mass limit that can be placed on the halo mass function in CDM using 28 strong gravitational lenses. For this purpose, we study an extreme model in which the…
Neutrino masses, matter-antimatter asymmetry, dark matter, and supermassive black hole formation explained with Majorons
Yifan Lu, Zachary S. C. Picker, Alexander Kusenko +1
The spontaneous breaking of a global lepton number symmetry can result in a (pseudo) Nambu-Goldstone boson known as the Majoron. We study a singlet Majoron model that couples to tw…
Formation of primordial black holes through Q-balls
Shinta Kasuya, Masahiro Kawasaki, Alexander Kusenko +1
We study the primordial black hole (PBH) formation from Q-balls that are non-topological solitons in scalar field theories. We develop a formula for calculating the density perturb…
When Tiny Halos Stir Spacetime: Gravitational Waves from Fifth-Force Mergers
Xinpeng Wang, Yifan Lu, Zachary S. C. Picker +2
Dark matter fermions interacting via attractive fifth forces mediated by a light mediator can form dark matter halos in the very early universe. We show that bound systems composed…