Discretely Charged Dark Matter in Inflation Models Based on Holographic Space-time [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08361


The Holographic Space-time (HST) model of inflation has a potential explanation for dark matter as tiny primordial black holes. Motivated by a recent paper of Barrau\cite{barrau} we propose a version of this model where some of the Inflationary Black Holes (IBHs), whose decay gives rise to the Hot Big Bang, carry the smallest value of a discrete symmetry charge. The fraction $f$ of IBHs carrying this charge is difficult to estimate from first principles, but we fix it by requiring that the crossover between radiation and matter domination occurs at the correct temperature $T_{eq} \sim 1 eV = 10^{-28} M_P$. The fraction is small, $f \sim 2\times 10^{-9}$ so we believe this gives an extremely plausible model of dark matter.

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T. T.Banks and W. W.Fischler
Tue, 20 Sep 22
15/81

Comments: 7 pages, 1 Figure