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Non-Gaussianity in inflationary scenarios for primordial black holes

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-08-08 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Working in an idealised framework in which a series of phases of evolution defined by the second slow-roll parameter η\eta are matched together, we calculate the reduced bispectrum, fNLf_{\rm NL}, for models of inflation with a large peak in their primordial power spectra. We find fNLf_{\rm NL} is typically approximately constant over scales at which the peak is located, and provide an analytic approximation for this value. This allows us to identify the conditions under which fNLf_{\rm NL} is large enough to have a significant impact on the resulting production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs). Together with analytic formulae for the gradient of the rise and fall in the power spectrum, this provides a toolkit for designing or quickly analysing inflationary models that produce PBHs and SIGWs.

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@article{arxiv.2110.08189,
  title  = {Non-Gaussianity in inflationary scenarios for primordial black holes},
  author = {Matthew W. Davies and Pedro Carrilho and David J. Mulryne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.08189},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

22 pages, 4 figures; footnotes and extra references added