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Primordial black hole production during preheating in a chaotic inflationary model

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2013-08-07 v1

Abstract

In this paper we review the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) during preheating after a chaotic inflationary model. All relevant equations of motion are solved numerically in a modified version of HLattice, and we then calculate the mass variance to determine structure formation during preheating. It is found that production of PBHs can be a generic result of the model, even though the results seem to be sensitive to the values of the smoothing scale. We consider a constraint for overproduction of PBHs that could uncover some stress between inflation-preheating models and observations.

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@article{arxiv.1308.1268,
  title  = {Primordial black hole production during preheating in a chaotic inflationary model},
  author = {E. Torres-Lomas and L. Arturo Urena-Lopez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.1268},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures. Prepared for the conference proceedings of the 9th Mexican School on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics : Cosmology for the XXI Century: Inflation, Dark Matter and Dark Energy