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We study the possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) can be formed from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition due to the effects of one-loop radiative corrections of Yukawa couplings between…

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We consider a mechanism for producing a significant population of primordial black holes (PBHs) and an observable stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) within string theory inspired models of inflation. In this framework where…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ogan Özsoy , Zygmunt Lalak

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) have entered the forefront of theoretical cosmology, due their potential role in phenomena ranging from gravitational waves, to dark matter, to galaxy formation. While producing PBHs from inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Keisuke Inomata , Evan McDonough , Wayne Hu

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can be produced from inflation if the primordial curvature power spectrum is strongly enhanced on scales much shorter than those probed by cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. In single-field models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Laura Iacconi

We consider primordial black hole (PBH) production in inflationary $\alpha$-attractors. We discuss two classes of models, namely models with a minimal polynomial superpotential as well as modulated chaotic ones that admit PBHs. We find that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-11 Ioannis Dalianis , Alex Kehagias , George Tringas

We investigate the enhancement of the curvature perturbations in a single-field slow-roll inflation with a spectator scalar field kinetically coupled to the inflaton. The coupling term with a periodic function of inflaton triggers the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Rong-Gen Cai , Chao Chen , Chengjie Fu

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) serve as a unique probe to the physics of the early Universe, particularly inflation. In light of this, we study the formation of PBHs by the collapse of overdense perturbations generated during a model of warm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Richa Arya

Primordial black holes (PBH) may form from large cosmological perturbations, produced during inflation when the inflaton's velocity is sufficiently slowed down. This usually requires very flat regions in the inflationary potential. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Vadim Briaud , Vincent Vennin

We investigate a mechanism of primordial black hole (PBH) formation that avoids any dependence on specific inflationary features or exotic physics. In this scenario, the required large curvature fluctuations leading to PBH formation are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Ioanna Stamou , Sebastien Clesse

Ultralight primordial black holes (PBHs) provide a compelling window into early-Universe cosmology. Following our earlier work, we explore a mechanism for the formation of ultralight PBHs sourced by primordial inflationary magnetic fields,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Subhasis Maiti , Debaprasad Maity

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

We revisit the scenario of primordial black hole (PBH) formation from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition in hybrid inflation models. In a minimal setup considered in the literature, the mass and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Yuichiro Tada , Masaki Yamada

It is well known that a primordial black hole (PBH) can be generated in the inflation process of the early universe, especially when the inflation field has a number of non-trivial features that could break the slow-roll condition. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-04 Ruifeng Zheng , Jiaming Shi , Taotao Qiu

A mechanism for generating anisotropic enhancements of the curvature perturbation through a vector field is proposed. We find that when the mixing between the inflaton perturbation and the vector-field perturbation is sufficiently strong in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Chong-Bin Chen , Bai-Xin An , Fu-Wen Shu

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) could be the cold dark matter of the universe. They could have arisen from large (order one) curvature fluctuations produced during inflation that reentered the horizon in the radiation era. At reentry, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Marco Peloso , Caner Unal

In this study, we investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in a scalar field inflationary model coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term with fractional power-law potentials. The coupling function enhances the curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Ali Ashrafzadeh , Kayoomars Karami

We consider the possibility of primordial black hole, PBH, formation sourced by a rise in the power spectrum. The power spectrum becomes large at late times due to decay of the inflaton into vectors through a $\phi F \tilde{F}$ coupling.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Jessica L. Cook

We consider the process of primordial black hole (PBH) formation originated from primordial curvature perturbations produced during waterfall transition (with tachyonic instability), at the end of hybrid inflation. It is known that in such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-08 Edgar Bugaev , Peter Klimai

Scalar perturbations during inflation can be substantially amplified by tiny features in the inflaton potential. A bump-like feature behaves like a local speed-breaker and lowers the speed of the scalar field, thereby locally enhancing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-15 Swagat S. Mishra , Varun Sahni

In this work, we investigate the generation of primordial black holes (PBHs) within the framework of single-field inflationary models and their compatibility with the cosmological history of the Universe. Our results suggest that, depending…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Sasha Allegrini , Loris Del Grosso , Antonio J. Iovino , Alfredo Urbano