Joint cosmology seminar at Tufts:

Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 2:30 pm
574 Boston Ave, Room 316\\
Tufts University
Refreshments at 2:00 outside the building, at the corner of Harvard St. and Boston Ave.

The unexpected shape of the primordial black hole mass function

Cristiano Germani
University of Barcelona

Abstract:

After introducing the nonlinear statistics for the primordial black holes’ abundance, I will show that the primordial black holes mass function necessarily peaks at the largest wavelength of the power spectrum of curvature perturbations.