WIMP/FIMP dark matter and primordial black holes with memory burden effect
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 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.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Galaxies: Formation
Evolution
Phenomena
Publication details
- Journal / source
- International Journal of Modern Physics A
- Publisher
- World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 14
- Publication date
- 16 April 2026
- Language
- EN