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April 18, 2026International Journal of Modern Physics A0 citations

WIMP/FIMP dark matter and primordial black holes with memory burden effect

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TKTeruyuki KitabayashiATAmane Takeshita

Key Points

  • The aim is to investigate how the memory burden effect extends the lifetime of primordial black holes and its implications for dark matter components.
  • Assumed dark matter includes WIMPs and FIMPs, alongside primordial black holes (PBHs).
  • Analyzed parameter regions ensuring thermal production is dominant and PBHs do not dominate energy density.
  • Identified conditions preventing dark matter particles emitted from PBHs from thermalizing with the thermal bath.
  • Demonstrated that three dark matter components can coexist without thermalization.
  • Found that the contribution from gravitational freeze-in via graviton exchange is minimal in the analyzed parameter space.

Abstract

The lifetime of primordial black holes (PBHs), which formed in the early universe, can be extended by the memory burden effect. Light PBHs may exist today and be candidates for dark matter (DM). We assume that DM is made of thermally produced weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), WIMPs produced via the Hawking radiation of PBHs, and PBHs that survived Hawking evaporation via the memory burden effect. Feebly interacting massive particles (FIMPs) are alternatives to WIMPs. Focusing on parameter regions where thermal production dominates and PBHs never dominate the energy density of the Universe, we identify a sufficient condition under which DM particles emitted from PBHs do not thermalize with the thermal bath. In this regime, the total DM relic abundance can be consistently obtained as the sum of the three components. In addition, we show that the contribution from gravitational freeze-in via graviton exchange remains subdominant within the parameter space considered.

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Kitabayashi et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e31ff140886becb653f032https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x26500934
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