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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

We study the formation of primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter and the generation of scalar induced secondary gravitational waves (SIGWs) in a non-supersymmetric model of hybrid inflation with chaotic (polynomial-like) potential,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-27 Waqas Ahmed , M. Junaid , Umer Zubair

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

In this work, we explore primordial black holes (PBH) formation scenario during the post-inflationary preheating stage dominated by the inflaton field. We consider, in particular, a model-independent parametrization of the Gaussian peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Daniel del-Corral , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

We study the generation of a localized peak in the primordial spectrum of curvature perturbations from a transient dissipative phase during inflation, leading to a large population of primordial black holes. The enhancement of the power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Guillermo Ballesteros , Marcos A. G. García , Alejandro Pérez Rodríguez , Mathias Pierre , Julián Rey

We propose a novel scenario to produce abundant primordial black holes (PBHs) in new inflation which is a second phase of a double inflation in the supergravity frame work. In our model, some preinflation phase before the new inflation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-04 Masahiro Kawasaki , Alexander Kusenko , Yuichiro Tada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We propose a novel enhancement mechanism of the curvature perturbations in the nonminimal derivative coupling inflation model with a coupling parameter related to the inflaton field. By considering a special form of the coupling parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

We show that resonant processes during multi-field inflation can generate a large curvature perturbation on small scales. This perturbation naturally leads to the formation of primordial black holes that may constitute dark matter, as well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Yuma S. Furuta , Mindaugas Karčiauskas , Kazunori Kohri , Alejandro Sáez

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

After the end of inflation, the inflaton field oscillates around a local minimum of its potential and decays into ordinary matter. These oscillations trigger a resonant instability for cosmological perturbations with wavelengths that exit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Jerome Martin , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Vincent Vennin

The next generation of cosmic microwave background, gravitational wave, and large scale structure, experiments will provide an unprecedented opportunity to probe the primordial power spectrum on small scales. An exciting possibility for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Keisuke Inomata , Evan McDonough , Wayne Hu

We investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs), their spin and abundance, in a single-field inflationary model based on a mutated hilltop potential inserted with a small step-like feature. This step induces a brief phase of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Abolhassan Mohammadi , Yogesh , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu

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

The modified supergravity approach is applied to describe a formation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) after Starobinsky inflation. Our approach naturally leads to the two-(scalar)-field attractor-type double inflation, whose first stage is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-12 Yermek Aldabergenov , Andrea Addazi , Sergei V. Ketov

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

We study sound speed resonance (SSR) mechanism for primordial black hole (PBH) formation in an early universe scenario with inflaton and curvaton being mixed. In this scenario, the total primordial density perturbations can be contributed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 Chao Chen , Yi-Fu Cai

We study a modification of the primordial black hole (PBH) formation model from axion bubbles. We assume that the Peccei-Quinn scalar rolls down in the radial direction from a large field value to the potential minimum during inflation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-23 Kentaro Kasai , Masahiro Kawasaki , Naoya Kitajima , Kai Murai , Shunsuke Neda , Fuminobu Takahashi

We analytically compute the power spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations in Type III hilltop inflation models under the slow-roll approximation. The model parameters are constrained using current Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-28 Chia-Min Lin , Harish Dhananjay Nalla , Chen-Pin Yeh , Da-Shin Lee

Recently, it has been claimed that inflationary models with an inflection point in the scalar potential can produce a large resonance in the power spectrum of curvature perturbation. In this paper however we show that the previous analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Cristiano Germani , Tomislav Prokopec
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