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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

We study the possibility that particle production during inflation can source the required power spectrum for dark matter (DM) primordial black holes (PBH) formation. We consider the scalar and the gauge quanta production in inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-19 Encieh Erfani

We propose a mechanism of producing a new type of primordial perturbations that collapse to primordial black holes whose mass can be as large as necessary for them to grow to the supermassive black holes observed at high redshifts, without…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-28 Tomohiro Nakama , Teruaki Suyama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We study the production of scalar-induced gravitational waves and primordial black holes in a single-field inflation model with a localized bump or dip feature in the potential. Introducing such a localized feature temporarily decelerates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Xiang Zhang , Zhao-Huan Yu

We argue that the existence of the cold dark matter is explained by primordial black holes.We show that a significant number of primordial black holes can be formed in an axion-like curvaton model, in which the highly blue-tilted power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-22 Masahiro Kawasaki , Naoya Kitajima , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

In this article we investigate the cumulative stochastic gravitational wave spectra as a tool to gain insight on the creation mechanism of primordial black holes. We consider gravitational waves from the production mechanism of primordial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-14 Indra Kumar Banerjee , Ujjal Kumar Dey

Chaotic inflation is inconsistent with the observational constraint at 68\% CL. Here, we show that the enhancement mechanism with a peak function in the noncanonical kinetic term not only helps the chaotic model $V(\phi)=V_0\phi^{1/3}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-29 Qing Gao

We propose a novel mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes by demonstrating that the delayed production of isocurvature perturbations resulting from Poisson fluctuations within the domain wall network can lead to collapse and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-07 Bo-Qiang Lu , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Tianjun Li

The formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) generally requires large density perturbations, which is widely supported by researchers. This paper studies the local coupling properties of the Starobinsky and Kachru-Kallosh-Linde-Trivedi…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Ruifeng Zheng , Yanqing Xu

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form in the early Universe via the collapse of large density perturbations. There are tight constraints on the abundance of PBHs formed due to their gravitational effects and the consequences of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 Amandeep S. Josan , Anne M. Green , Karim A. Malik

We investigate the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and scalar-induced gravitational waves (GWs) for cosmological models in the Horndeski theory of gravity. The cosmological models of our interest incorporate the derivative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-20 Pisin Chen , Seoktae Koh , Gansukh Tumurtushaa

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 develop a primordial black hole (PBH) production mechanism, deriving non-Gaussian tails from interacting quantum fields during early universe inflation. The multi-field potential landscape may contain relatively flat directions, as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-07 George Panagopoulos , Eva Silverstein

Primordial black holes may form in the early Universe, for example from the collapse of large amplitude density perturbations predicted in some inflationary models. Light black holes undergo Hawking evaporation, the energy injection from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew R Liddle , Anne M Green

The primordial black hole (PBH) is an effective candidate for dark matter. In this work, the PBH abundance $f$ is calculated in peak theory, with one or two perturbations in the inflaton potential. We construct an antisymmetric perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 Qing Wang , Yi-Chen Liu , Bing-Yu Su , Nan Li

Here, we investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) in non-minimal coupling Gauss-Bonnet inflationary model in the presence of power-law potentials. We employ a two part coupling function to enhance primordial curvatures at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-12 Milad Solbi , Kayoomars Karami

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Adeela Afzal , Anish Ghoshal

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) generated by gravitational collapse of large primordial overdensities can be a fraction of the observed dark matter. In this paper, we introduce a mechanism to produce a large peak in the primordial power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Matteo Braglia , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Fabio Finelli , George F. Smoot , L. Sriramkumar , Alexei A. Starobinsky

In theories with a broken discrete symmetry, Hubble sized spherical domain walls may spontaneously nucleate during inflation. These objects are subsequently stretched by the inflationary expansion, resulting in a broad distribution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-10 Heling Deng , Jaume Garriga , Alexander Vilenkin
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