Featured papers from the MIT PBH Group.
- Alexandra Klipfel and David Kaiser, “Gravitational ionization by Schwarzschild primordial black holes,” arXiv:2601.05935.
- Dario Lorenzoni, Sarah Geller, David Kaiser, and Evan McDonough, “Primordial black holes from inflation with a spectator field,” arXiv:2512.04199 .
- Alexandra Klipfel, Peter Fisher, and David Kaiser, “Hawking radiation signatures from primordial black holes transiting the inner Solar System: Prospects for detection,” Physical Review D 112 (2025): 103007, arXiv:2506.14041 .
- Dario Lorenzoni, Sarah Geller, Zachary Ireland, David Kaiser, Evan McDonough, and Kyle Wittmeier, “Light scalar fields foster production of primordial black holes,” arXiv:2504.13251 .
- Vitorio De Lorenci, David Kaiser, Patrick Peter, Lucas Ruiz, and Noah Wolfe, “Gravitational wave signals from primordial black holes orbiting solar-type stars,” Physical Review D 112 (2025): 063063, arXiv:2504.07517 .
- Alexandra Klipfel and David Kaiser, “Ultrahigh-energy neutrinos from primordial black holes,” Physical Review Letters 135 (2025): 121003, arXiv:2503.19227 . Editors’ Suggestion. Featured in APS Physics.
- Vitorio De Lorenci, David Kaiser, and Patrick Peter, “Orbital motion of primordial black holes crossing Sun-like stars,” American Journal of Physics 93 (2025): 943-950, arXiv:2405.08113 .
- Tung Tran, Sarah Geller, Benjamin Lehmann, and David Kaiser, “Close encounters of the primordial kind: A new observable for primordial black holes as dark matter,” Physical Review D 110 (2024): 063533, arXiv:2312.17217 . Editors’ Suggestion. Featured in APS Physics.
- Elba Alonso-Monsalve and David Kaiser, “Primordial black holes with QCD color charge,” Physical Review Letters 132 (2024): 231402, arXiv:2310.16877 . Editors’ Suggestion. Featured in APS Physics.
- Elba Alonso-Monsalve and David Kaiser, “Debye screening of non-Abelian plasmas in curved spacetimes,” Physical Review D 108 (2023): 125010, arXiv:2309.15385.
- Wenzer Qin, Sarah Geller, Shyam Balaji, Evan McDonough, and David Kaiser, “Planck constraints and gravitational wave forecasts for primordial black hole dark matter seeded by multifield inflation,” Physical Review D 108 (2023): 043508, arXiv:2303.02168 .
- Sarah Geller, Wenzer Qin, Evan McDonough, and David Kaiser, “Primordial black holes from multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings,” Physical Review D 106 (2022): 063535, arXiv:2205.04471 .
We gratefully acknowledge support from the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant Program at MIT, the US National Science Foundation (Graduate Research Fellowship, Grant No. 2131064), and the US Department of Energy (Contract No. DE-SC0012567).