Primordial black holes from Q-balls produced in a first-order phase transition

arXiv:2505.21830 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-ex · Submitted 2025-05-27 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-ex

Submitted: 2025-05-27

Updated: 2026-08-28

Comments: 15 pages, 2 figures. Version to appear in JCAP

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Phase Transitions — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Superradiance — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hubble Tension — 6× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Reheating — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Domain Walls — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Parsimony — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Topological Defects — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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