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We investigate the possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) can be formed from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition in a hybrid inflation model driven by an axion-like particle (ALP) $\phi$.…

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In light of the latest Planck and Atacama Cosmology Telescope (P-ACT) joint results on the primordial scalar power spectrum, we show that the $R^2$ inflation model extended with a non-minimally coupled scalar field $\chi$--namely the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Xinpeng Wang , Kazunori Kohri , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We study the generation of primordial black holes (PBH) in a single field inflection point model of inflation wherein the effective potential is expanded up to the sextic order and the inversion symmetry is imposed such that only even…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-20 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Rajeev Kumar Jain

We explore the role of dissipative effects during warm inflation leading to the small-scale enhancement of the power spectrum of curvature perturbations. In this paper, we specifically focus on non-canonical warm inflationary scenarios and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Richa Arya , Rajeev Kumar Jain , Arvind Kumar Mishra

We study the parameter space of the effective (with two scalars) models of cosmological inflation and primordial black hole (PBH) formation in the modified $(R+R^2)$ supergravity. Our models describe double inflation, whose first stage is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-10 Ryotaro Ishikawa , Sergei V. Ketov

Next generation cosmic microwave background spectral distortion and pulsar timing array experiments have the potential to probe primordial fluctuations at small scales with remarkable sensitivity. We demonstrate the potential of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Caner Unal , Ely D. Kovetz , Subodh P. Patil

Primordial black holes (PBHs) could be formed if large perturbations are generated on small scales in inflation. We study a toy inflation model with a local minimum. The curvature perturbations are enhanced when the inflaton passes through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Bao-Min Gu , Fu-Wen Shu , Ke Yang , Yu-Peng Zhang

A scenario in which primeval black holes (PBHs) form at the end of an extended inflationary period is capable of producing, via Hawking radiation, the observed entropy, as well as the observed dark matter density in the form of Planck mass…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephon Alexander , Peter Mészáros

When large overdensities gravitationally collapse in the early universe, they lead to primordial black holes (PBH). Depending on the exact model of inflation leading to necessary large perturbations at scales much smaller than scales probed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-27 Sukannya Bhattacharya

Primordial black holes (PBHs) provide a well-motivated non-particle candidate for dark matter, requiring an enhancement of curvature perturbations on small inflationary scales consistent with observational constraints. In this work we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Despina Totolou , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We revisit the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) by a U(1) gauge field with a pseudo-scalar coupling to the inflaton. We improve upon the existing literature by working in the homogeneous backreaction regime with numerically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Gabriele Franciolini , Nadir Ijaz , Marco Peloso

Preheating after inflation may over-produce primordial black holes (PBH's) in many regions of parameter space. As an example we study two-field models with a massless self-interacting inflaton, taking into account second order field and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Bruce A. Bassett , Shinji Tsujikawa

Here, generation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) from quartic potential in the presence of a tiny bump in non-canonical inflationary model has been inquired. It is demonstrated that, a viable inflationary era can be driven through the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Soma Heydari , Kayoomars Karami

We report a novel mechanism where two families of primordial black holes (PBHs) may form at nearly the same comoving scales but at two different epochs. It is realized in two-stage inflation where a non-inflationary stage is sandwiched by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 Xinpeng Wang , Misao Sasaki , Ying-li Zhang

We examine the formation and evolution of primordial black holes (PBH's) after hybrid inflation. Our goal is to assess the effects of various theoretical uncertainties on the extrapolation from a given inflation model to a spectrum of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Thompson

Evidences for the primordial black holes (PBH) presence in the early Universe renew permanently. New limits on their mass spectrum challenge existing models of PBH formation. One of the known model is based on the closed walls collapse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Alexander A. Kirillov , Sergey G. Rubin

It has been shown that black holes would have formed in the early Universe if, on any given scale, the spectral amplitude of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) exceeds 10^(-4). This value is within the bounds allowed by astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Laila Alabidi , Kazunori Kohri

We calculate the constraints on the primordial curvature perturbation at the end of inflation from the present day abundance of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), as a function of the reheat temperature T_{\rm RH}. We first extend recent work…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ignacio Zaballa , Anne M. Green , Karim A. Malik , Misao Sasaki

Here, Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) creation from exponential potential has been inquired, through gravitationally raised friction emanated from the nonminimal coupling between gravity and field derivative setup. Setting a two-parted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-17 Soma Heydari , Kayoomars Karami

We investigate a model of $R^2$-gravity with a non-minimally coupled scalar field that gives rise to two-stage inflation with a break, that is, with an intermediate stage where inflation momentarily halts. We find that the power spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 Xinpeng Wang , Ying-li Zhang , Misao Sasaki