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Primordial black holes in braneworld cosmologies: Accretion after formation
We recently studied the formation and evaporation of primordial black holes
in a simple braneworld cosmology, namely Randall-Sundrum Type II. Here we study
the effect of accretion from the cosmological background onto the black holes
after formation. While it is generally believed that in the standard cosmology
such accretion is of negligible importance, we find that during the high-energy
regime of braneworld cosmology accretion can be the dominant effect and lead to
a mass increase of potentially orders of magnitude. However, unfortunately the
growth is exponentially sensitive to the accretion efficiency, which cannot be
determined accurately. Since accretion becomes unimportant once the high-energy
regime is over, it does not affect any constraints expressed at the time of
black hole evaporation, but it can change the interpretation of those
constraints in terms of early Universe formation rates.Comment: 6 pages RevTeX4 file. Extension to discussion of thermal balance and
grey-body factor