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PBHs <strong>and</strong> <strong>Cosmological</strong> <strong>Phase</strong> <strong>Transitions</strong> 7<br />

Multiplying tH by the speed of light c one obtains the so called Hubble radius<br />

RH (e.g. Boyanovsky et al., 2006)<br />

RH(t) = c<br />

= cR(t)<br />

H(t) ˙R(t)<br />

(28)<br />

which corresponds to the size of the Observable Universe at a given epoch. The<br />

mass contained inside a region with size RH is called the horizon mass <strong>and</strong> it<br />

is given by<br />

MH(t) = 4<br />

3 πRH(t) 3 ρ(t). (29)<br />

Here we consider for MH(t) the approximation given by (e.g. Carr, 2005)<br />

MH(t) ≈ c3 <br />

t<br />

t<br />

≈ 1015<br />

G 10−23 <br />

g (30)<br />

s<br />

where c is the speed of light in the vacuum <strong>and</strong> G is the Gravitational constant.<br />

This expression is useful in the context of the study of PBHs. It is natural to<br />

assume that the mass of a PBH, when it forms, is of the order of MH at that<br />

epoch (e.g. Carr, 2005). When t ≈ 10 −23 s we have MH ≈ 10 15 g. These values<br />

represent, respectively, the time of formation <strong>and</strong> the initial mass of the PBHs<br />

that are presumed to be explodind by the present time (e.g. Sobrinho, 2003).<br />

There are, however, some problems with the stantard Big Bang theory. In<br />

order to identify such problems let us start by dividing equation (2) by H 2<br />

1= 8πG κ<br />

ρ −<br />

3H2 R2H 2 + c2Λ . (31)<br />

3H2 Consider the case Λ = 0. If κ< 0 the Universe will exp<strong>and</strong> forever <strong>and</strong> if<br />

k>0 the expansion will eventually give way to contraction. Between the two<br />

possibilities we have the critical case κ = 0. In this case one obtains from<br />

equation (31) the following expression for the density<br />

ρc = 3H2<br />

8πG<br />

(32)<br />

which is called the critical density. The matter density parameter is defined as<br />

(e.g. Unsöld & Bascheck, 2002)<br />

Ωm = ρ<br />

ρc<br />

(33)<br />

where ρ is the matter density of the Universe. We will introduce here also the<br />

quantities (e.g. Covi, 2003)<br />

Ωκ = − κ<br />

H 2 R 2<br />

ΩΛ = ρΛ<br />

ρc<br />

(34)<br />

= c2Λ . (35)<br />

3H2

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