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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…

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In this contribution we discuss the possibility of generating an observable gravitational wave (GW) background by coupling a pseudo-scalar inflaton to some Abelian gauge fields. This analysis is performed by dividing inflationary models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-04 Mauro Pieroni

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

We consider mechanisms for producing a significant population of primordial black holes (PBHs) within string inspired single field models of inflation. The production of PBHs requires a large amplification in the power spectrum of curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Ogan Özsoy , Susha Parameswaran , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Ivonne Zavala

We study the non-Gaussianity and secondary Gravitational Waves (GWs) in the process of the Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) production from inflation. In our work, we focus on the $\alpha$-attractor inflation model in which a tiny bump in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Kazem Rezazadeh , Zeinab Teimoori , Saeid Karimi , Kayoomars Karami

In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism in $\mathbb{T}^2$-inflation to enhance the power spectrum large enough to seed primordial black holes (PBHs) formation. To accomplish this, we consider the coupling function between the inflaton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Seyed Ali Hosseini Mansoori , Fereshteh Felegray , Alireza Talebian , Mohammad Sami

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

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

Mounting evidence suggests that the semi-classical description of a black hole breaks down at the latest after losing an O(1) fraction of its mass. As a result, effects such as memory burden can slow down evaporation so that small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 Will Barker , Benjamin Gladwyn , Sebastian Zell

A perturbation on the background inflaton potential can lead inflation into the ultraslow-roll stage and can thus remarkably enhance the power spectrum ${\cal P}_{\cal R}(k)$ of the primordial curvature perturbation on small scales. Such an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Ji-Xiang Zhao , Xiao-Hui Liu , Nan Li

As potential candidates of dark matter, primordial black holes (PBHs) are within the core scopes of various astronomical observations. In light of the explosive development of gravitational wave (GW) and radio astronomy, we thoroughly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-23 Yi-Fu Cai , Chao Chen , Xi Tong , Dong-Gang Wang , Sheng-Feng Yan

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) can generically form in inflationary setups through the collapse of enhanced cosmological perturbations, providing us access to the early Universe through their associated observational signatures. In the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Theodoros Papanikolaou , Andreas Lymperis , Smaragda Lola , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

The formation of primordial black holes is studied using superconformal inflationary $\alpha$-attractors. An inflaton potential is constructed with a plateau-like region which brings about the onset of an ultra slow-roll region where the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Rafid Mahbub

Recently, the worldwide Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations detected a stochastic gravitational wave(GW) background in the nanohertz range, which may originate from the early universe's inflationary phase. So in this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Peng-Bo Chen , Tie-Jun Gao

After primordial inflation, the universe may have experienced a prolonged reheating epoch, potentially leading to a phase of matter domination supported by the oscillating inflaton field. During such an epoch, perturbations in the inflaton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Luis E. Padilla , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Karim A. Malik , David Mulryne

We present a single-field string inflationary model which allows for the generation of primordial black holes in the low mass region where they can account for a significant fraction of the dark matter abundance. The potential is typical of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Michele Cicoli , Victor A. Diaz , Francisco G. Pedro

Stochastic gravitational waves can be induced from the primordial curvature perturbations generated during inflation, through scalar-tensor mode coupling at the second order of cosmological perturbation theory. Here we discuss a model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-07 Richa Arya , Arvind Kumar Mishra

Cosmological perturbations, originating in the quantum fluctuations of the fields that drive inflation, are observed to be nearly scale invariant at the largest scales. At smaller scales, however, perturbations are not severely constrained…

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