Lepton flavor asymmetries and the mass spectrum of primordial black holes

Boedeker, Dietrich; Kuehnel, Florian; Oldengott, Isabel M. und Schwarz, Dominik J. (2021): Lepton flavor asymmetries and the mass spectrum of primordial black holes. In: Physical Review D, Bd. 103, Nr. 6, 63506

Abstract

We study the influence of lepton flavor asymmetries on the formation and the mass spectrum of primordial black holes. We estimate the detectability of their mergers with LIGO/Virgo and show that the currently published gravitational wave events may actually be described by a primordial black hole spectrum from nonzero asymmetries. We suggest to use gravitational-wave astronomy as a novel tool to probe how lepton flavor asymmetric the Universe has been before the onset of neutrino oscillations.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Physik
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
• ISSN: 2470-0010
• Sprache: Englisch