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On primordial black holes from an inflection point

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2017-09-06 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Recently, it has been claimed that inflationary models with an inflection point in the scalar potential can produce a large resonance in the power spectrum of curvature perturbation. In this paper however we show that the previous analyses are incorrect. The reason is twofold: firstly, the inflaton is over-shot from a stage of standard inflation and so deviates from the slow-roll attractor before reaching the inflection. Secondly, on the (or close to) the inflection point, the ultra-slow-roll trajectory supersede the slow-roll one and thus, the slow-roll approximations used in the literature cannot be used. We then reconsider the model and provide a recipe for how to produce nevertheless a large peak in the matter power spectrum via fine-tuning of parameters.

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@article{arxiv.1706.04226,
  title  = {On primordial black holes from an inflection point},
  author = {Cristiano Germani and Tomislav Prokopec},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.04226},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures; v3: references and additional minor comments added. Version accepted for publication in Physics of the Dark Universe