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Primordial black holes generated by the non-minimal spectator field

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-02-24 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a model in which a spectator field non-minimally couples to an inflaton field and the power spectrum of the perturbation of the spectator field at small scales is dramatically enhanced by the sharp feature in the form of non-minimal coupling. At or after the end of inflation, the perturbation of the spectator field is converted into curvature perturbation and leads to the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs). Furthermore, for example, we consider three phenomenological models for generating PBHs with mass function peaked at 1012M\sim10^{-12}M_\odot and representing all the cold dark matter in our Universe and find that the scalar induced gravitational waves generated by the curvature perturbation can be detected by the future space-borne gravitational-wave detectors such as Taiji, TianQin and LISA.

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@article{arxiv.2212.03577,
  title  = {Primordial black holes generated by the non-minimal spectator field},
  author = {De-Shuang Meng and Chen Yuan and Qing-Guo Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.03577},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

15 pages and 4 figures; clarifications and refs added