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The inflationary origin of primordial black holes (PBHs) relies on a large enhancement of the power spectrum $\Delta_\zeta$ of the curvature fluctuation $\zeta$ at wavelengths much shorter than those of the cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 Gonzalo A. Palma , Spyros Sypsas , Cristobal Zenteno

The computation of PBH (primordial black hole) production from primordial perturbations has recently been improved by considering a more accurate relation between the primordial power spectrum and the PBH mass variance. We present here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Blais , Claus Kiefer , David Polarski

Single-field inflationary models which generate primordial black holes through the enhancement of the curvature primordial power at small scales are commonly criticized and frequently dismissed because they require a large amount of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 A. J. Iovino , A. Riotto

We study the generation of a large power spectrum, necessary for primordial black hole formation, within the effective theory of single-field inflation. The mechanisms we consider include a transition into a ghost-inflation-like phase and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Guillermo Ballesteros , Sebastián Céspedes , Luca Santoni

It is known that the single-field inflation with a transient ultra-slow-roll phase can produce a large curvature perturbation at small scales for the formation of primordial black holes. In our previous work, we have considered quantum loop…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Shu-Lin Cheng , Da-Shin Lee , Kin-Wang Ng

In recent years, the formation of primordial black holes (PBH) in the early universe inflationary cosmology has garnered significant attention. One plausible scenario for primordial black hole (PBH) formation arises during the preheating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Daniel del-Corral , Paolo Gondolo , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

We revisit well-established mechanisms for primordial black hole (PBH) production, namely inflation, phase transitions, and cosmic strings, in the context of the Dark Dimension Scenario, which is motivated by Swampland principles. Applying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-19 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Alek Bedroya , Dieter Lüst

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the candidates to explain the gravitational wave (GW) signals observed by the LIGO detectors. Among several phenomena in the early Universe, cosmic inflation is a major example to generate PBHs from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Yuichiro Tada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

In this work, a new fast-roll (FR) mechanism to generate primordial black holes (PBHs) and gravitational waves (GWs) in generalized non-canonical natural inflation is introduced. In this model, choosing a suitable function for non-canonical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-01 Soma Heydari , Kayoomars Karami

We investigate a new mechanism to create large curvature perturbations on small scales due to parameter resonance in a single-field inflationary model with a small periodic structure upon the potential. After reentering the horizon, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Jing Liu , Lang Liu , Xing-Yu Yang

The primordial black hole (PBH) formation is studied in light of the inflating curvaton. The typical scale of the PBH formation is determined by curvaton inflation, which may generate PBH with $10^{14}\mathrm{g}\le M_\mathrm{PBH}\le…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-05 Kazunori Kohri , Chia-Min Lin , Tomohiro Matsuda

We study inflation in a recently proposed gravitational effective field theory describing the trace anomaly. The theory requires an additional scalar which is massless in the early universe. This scalar -- referenced as an anomalyon --…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-17 Gregory Gabadadze , David N. Spergel , Giorgi Tukhashvili

The production of primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter (DM) and the generation of scalar induced secondary gravitational waves by using the enhancement mechanism with a peak function in the non-canonical kinetic term in natural inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-10 Qing Gao , Yungui Gong , Zhu Yi

Primordial black hole production in the mass range $10-10^4 \,{\rm M_\odot}$ is motivated respectively by interpretations of the LIGO/Virgo observations of binary black hole mergers and by their ability to seed intermediate black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Philippa S. Cole , Joseph Silk

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are, typically light, black holes which can form in the early Universe. There are a number of formation mechanisms, including the collapse of large density perturbations, cosmic string loops and bubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Anne M. Green

We demonstrate that violent kinetic preheating following inflation can lead to the formation of black holes in the early Universe. In $\alpha$-attractor models with derivative inflaton couplings, nonlinear amplification of field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Peter Adshead , Eve Currens , John T. Giblin

A mechanism for generating primordial black-hole mass spectra with many spikes is proposed and investigated. This mechanism relies on the choice of non-Bunch-Davies vacua, these leading to oscillatory features in the inflationary power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-30 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel

We study rapid-turn trajectories in a class of two-field cosmological models, whose scalar manifold is the Poincar\'e disk. Background solutions in multi-field inflation, with field-space trajectories exhibiting sharp turns, can seed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-09 Lilia Anguelova

Here, we explore the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) within a scalar field inflationary model coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term, incorporating the low-scale spontaneously broken supersymmetric (SB SUSY) potential. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 A. Ashrafzadeh , M. Solbi , S. Heydari , K. Karami

We investigate an inflationary model with a non-minimal derivative coupling, where the coupling function contains both constant and periodic components. On large scales, the model is in excellent agreement with the latest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Li-Shuai Wang , Qiong-Tao Xie , Li-Yang Chen