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    Adiabatic contraction revisited: implications for primordial black holes

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    We simulate the adiabatic contraction of a dark matter (DM) distribution during the process of the star formation, paying particular attention to the phase space distribution of the DM particles after the contraction. Assuming the initial uniform density and Maxwellian distribution of DM velocities, we find that the number n(r)n(r) of DM particles within the radius rr scales like n(r)r1.5n(r) \propto r^{1.5}, leading to the DM density profile ρr1.5\rho\propto r^{-1.5}, in agreement with the Liouville theorem and previous numerical studies. At the same time, the number of DM particles ν(r)\nu(r) with periastra smaller than rr is parametrically larger, ν(r)r\nu(r) \propto r, implying that many particles contributing at any given moment into the density ρ(r)\rho(r) at small rr have very elongated orbits and spend most of their time at distances larger than rr. This has implications for the capture of DM by stars in the process of their formation. As a concrete example we consider the case of primordial black holes (PBH). We show that accounting for very eccentric orbits boosts the amount of captured PBH by a factor of up to 2×1032\times 10^3 depending on the PBH mass, improving correspondingly the previously derived constraints on the PBH abundance.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, discussions added to the "Simulation of DM orbits" part, fig.3 with several DM densities. Revised version to match published versio

    Possibility of hypothetical stable micro black hole production at future 100 TeV collider

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    We study the phenomenology of TeV-scale black holes predicted in theories with large extra dimensions, under the further assumption that they are absolutely stable. Our goal is to present an exhaustive analysis of safety of the proposed 100 TeV collider, as it was done in the case of the LHC. We consider the theories with different number of extra dimensions and identify those for which a possible accretion to macroscopic size would have timescales shorter than the lifetime of the Solar system. We calculate the cross sections of the black hole production at the proposed 100 TeV collider, the fraction of the black holes trapped inside the Earth and the resulting rate of capture inside the Earth via an improved method. We study the astrophysical consequences of stable micro black holes existence, in particular its influence on the stability of white dwarfs and neutron stars. We obtain constraints for the previously unexplored range of higher-dimensional Planck mass values. Several astrophysical scenarios of the micro black hole production, which were not considered before, are taken into account. Finally, using the astrophysical constraints we consider the implications for future 100 TeV terrestrial experiments. We exclude the possibility of the charged stable micro black holes production.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in EPJ
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