Speaker
Barmak Shams Es Haghi
(University of Texas at Austin)
Description
Co-Discussion Leaders: Barmak Shams Es Haghi
This block is focused on epochs of primordial-black-hole (PBH) domination and their
potential consequences – including, for example, possible implications for dark-matter
physics, gravitational-wave physics, and the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the
universe. An early matter-dominated eras (EMDEs) can of course arise within the
cosmological timeline when PBHs dominate. Since such eras will be the focus of a
separate, dedicated block (Block II), the focus of this block will primarily be on other
possible consequences of PBHs on the cosmological expansion history or on distinctive
potential implications of PBH-dominated eras which are not realized in other EMDEs.
