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New cosmological constraints on primordial black holes

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In this article, the fraction of the universe going into primordial black holes in the mass range was studied and the effects of their evaporations on big bang nucleosynthesis and the extragalactic photon background were discussed.
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We update the constraints on the fraction of the Universe going into primordial black holes in the mass range ${10}^{9}--{10}^{17}\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{g}$ associated with the effects of their evaporations on big bang nucleosynthesis and the extragalactic photon background. We include for the first time all the effects of quark and gluon emission by black holes on these constraints and account for the latest observational developments. We then discuss the other constraints in this mass range and show that these are weaker than the nucleosynthesis and photon background limits, apart from a small range ${10}^{13}--{10}^{14}\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{g}$, where the damping of cosmic microwave background anisotropies dominates. Finally we review the gravitational and astrophysical effects of nonevaporating primordial black holes, updating constraints over the broader mass range $1--{10}^{50}\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{g}$.

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