- Accepted Paper
Reduced gravitational wave signal reopens the ultralight primordial black hole window
Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 10 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/bgv1-lpq7
Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 10 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/bgv1-lpq7
The hot Big Bang may have emerged from evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) lighter than 10^9 g. Standard monochromatic treatments predict nearly simultaneous evaporation, abrupt reheating, and a large Poltergeist scalar-induced gravitational wave signal. We confront this expectation with the irreducible collapse mass tail predicted by general relativity, dfPBH/d ln M proportional to M^3.78, which smooths reheating, suppresses the signal by orders of magnitude, and reopens the ultra-light PBH window.
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