Primordial black hole remnants as dark matter produced in thermal, matter, and runaway-quintessence postinflationary scenarios

Abstract

We investigate the cosmology of mini Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) produced by large density perturbations. The mini PBHs evaporate promptly in the early universe and we assume that a stable remnant is left behind. The PBHs remnants can constitute the entire dark matter of the universe for a wide range of remnant masses. We build inflationary models, in the framework of $\alpha$-attractors utilizing exponential functions, in which the PBHs are produced during matter, radiation and kination domination eras. The advantage of these inflationary models is that the spectral index takes values favorable by the Planck 2018 data. The PBH production from runaway inflaton models has the unique and very attractive feature to automatically reheat the universe. In these models the PBHs are produced during the kination stage and their prompt evaporation efficiently produces the required entropy. Such runaway models are remarkably economic having interesting implications for the early universe cosmology, possibly giving rise to a wCDM late time cosmology as well.