Speaker
Louis Hamaide
Description
The Hawking evaporation of primordial black holes (PBH) reheats the Universe locally, forming hot spots that survive throughout their lifetime. We propose to use the temperature profile of such hot spots to calculate the decay rate of metastable vacua in cosmology, avoiding inconsistencies inherent to the Hartle-Hawking or Unruh vacuum. We apply our formalism to the case of the electroweak vacuum stability and find that a PBH energy fraction $\beta > 7\times 10^{-80} (M/\mathrm{g})^{3/2}$ is ruled out for black holes with masses $0.8 \,{\rm g} < M < 10^{15} \,{\rm g}$.
Primary authors
Dr
Andrew Cheek
(Astrocent, NCAC)
Louis Hamaide
Dr
Lucien Heurtier
(King's College London)
Shiqian Hu
(King's College London)
