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In this paper we present a new scenario where massive Primordial Black Holes (PBH) are produced from the collapse of large curvature perturbations generated during a mild waterfall phase of hybrid inflation. We determine the values of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-22 Sébastien Clesse , Juan García-Bellido

We investigate the amplification of curvature perturbations in a two-field inflation model featuring a Gaussian potential bump. When the inflaton encounters a potential bump along the inflationary trajectory, its rolling speed is generally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Chengjie Fu , Chao Chen

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) 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 review a new natural inflationary mechanism operated by repulsive-like primordial black holes (PBHs). In particular, working within the ``Swiss - Cheese" cosmological framework, we find that a Universe filled with PBHs, whose spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Konstantinos Dialektopoulos , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Vasilios Zarikas

We present a scenario that ameliorates the tuning problems present in models of primordial black hole dark matter from inflation. Our setup employs the advantages of gravitational collapse in a long epoch of early matter domination with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-23 Guillermo Ballesteros , Julián Rey , Fabrizio Rompineve

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 calculate the constraints on the primordial curvature perturbation at the end of inflation from the present day abundance of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), as a function of the reheat temperature T_{\rm RH}. We first extend recent work…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ignacio Zaballa , Anne M. Green , Karim A. Malik , Misao Sasaki

The E-type $\alpha$-attractor models of single-field inflation were generalized further in order to accommodate production of primordial black holes (PBH) via adding a near-inflection point to the inflaton scalar potential at smaller…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Daniel Frolovsky , Sergei V. Ketov

Recently, it has been shown that the primordial black holes (PBHs) produced by near critical collapse in the expanding universe have a scaling mass relation similar to that of black holes produced in asymptotically flat spacetime. Distinct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hee Il Kim

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

In this work, we explore the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) within the context of $\alpha$-attractor inflationary models, focusing on the preheating phase following inflation. During this phase, self-resonance instabilities…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-26 Daniel del-Corral , Paolo Gondolo , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) forming prior to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis evolve during the reheating epoch, an environment dominated by an oscillating inflaton field decaying into a relativistic thermal bath. In this work, we track the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Jitumani Kalita , Debaprasad Maity

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

We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBH) in the Starobinsky supergravity coupled to the nilpotent superfield describing Volkov-Akulov goldstino. By using the no-scale K\"ahler potential and a polynomial superpotential, we find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-10 Yermek Aldabergenov , Sergei V. Ketov

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 review conceptual aspects of inflationary scenarios able to produce primordial black holes, by amplifying the size of curvature fluctuations to the level required for triggering black hole formation. We identify general mechanisms to do…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Ogan Özsoy , Gianmassimo Tasinato

Inflation provides a suitable environment for the formation of Primordial Black Holes(PBHs). In this article, we examine the formation of primordial black holes in the Mutated Hilltop inflation model coupled with the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-06 Yogesh , Abolhassan Mohammadi

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can be produced by a range of mechanisms in the early universe. A particular formation channel that connects PBHs with inflationary phenomenology invokes enhanced primordial curvature perturbations at small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-06 Philippa S. Cole , Andrew D. Gow , Christian T. Byrnes , Subodh P. Patil

We propose a new model-independent mechanism for producing primordial black holes from a period of multi-field inflation. This requires an enhancement of primordial fluctuations at short scales compared to their value at CMB scales. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-19 Jacopo Fumagalli , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , John W. Ronayne , Lukas T. Witkowski