Formation of hot spots around small primordial black holes

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In this paper, we investigate the thermalization of Hawking radiation from primordial black holes (PBHs) in the early Universe, taking into account the interference effect on thermalization of high energy particles, known as Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect.

• Small PBHs with masses $ \lesssim 10^9 \, \mathrm{g} $ completely evaporate before the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN).
• The Hawking radiation emitted from these PBHs heats up the ambient plasma with temperature lower than the Hawking temperature, which results in a non-trivial temperature profile around the PBHs, namely a hot spot surrounding a PBH with a broken power-law tail.
• We find that the hot spot has a core with a radius much larger than the black hole horizon and its highest temperature is independent of the initial mass of the PBH such as $2 \times 10^{9} \, {\rm GeV} \times (\alpha/0.1)^{19/3}$, where $\alpha$ generically represents the fine-structure constants.