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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…

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We summarize our work on the generation of primordial black holes in a type of two-field inflationary models. The key ingredient is a sharp turn of the background trajectory in field space. We show that certain classes of solutions to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-07 Lilia Anguelova

If the inflaton gets trapped in a local minimum of its potential shortly before the end of inflation, it escapes by building up quantum fluctuations in a process known as stochastic tunnelling. In this work we study cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Chiara Animali , Vincent Vennin

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

We study rapid-turn trajectories in a class of two-field cosmological models, whose scalar manifold is the Poincar\'e disk. Background solutions in multi-field inflation, with field-space trajectories exhibiting sharp turns, can seed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-09 Lilia Anguelova

The exponential-tail behaviours of the probability density function (PDF) of the primordial curvature perturbation are confirmed in the mild-waterfall variants of hybrid inflation with the use of the stochastic formalism of inflation. On…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Tomoaki Murata , Yuichiro Tada

We propose a new single field inflation model in which the usual slow-roll inflation is joined to a new period of slow-climb and slow-roll inflation through a short intermediate non-inflationary phase. We then show that primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

Inflationary models that contain a transient ultra-slow-roll phase can exhibit strong non-perturbative dynamics, making the usual perturbative treatment of cosmological fluctuations incomplete. In such regimes, quantum diffusion and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Xiao-Quan Ye , Shao-Jiang Wang

Cosmological $\alpha$-attractors stand out as particularly compelling models to describe inflation in the very early universe, naturally meeting tight observational bounds from cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. We investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Laura Iacconi , Hooshyar Assadullahi , Matteo Fasiello , David Wands

We propose and study the new (generalized) E-type $\alpha$-attractor models of inflation, in order to include formation of primordial black holes (PBHs). The inflaton potential has a near-inflection point where slow-roll conditions are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Daniel Frolovsky , Sergei V. Ketov , Sultan Saburov

Supersymmetric hybrid inflation is an exquisite framework to connect inflationary cosmology to particle physics at the scale of grand unification. Ending in a phase transition associated with spontaneous symmetry breaking, it can naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-31 Wilfried Buchmuller , Valerie Domcke , Kohei Kamada , Kai Schmitz

We construct an analytically solvable simplified model that captures the essential features for primordial black hole (PBH) production in most models of single-field inflation. The construction makes use of the Wands duality between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Alexandros Karam , Niko Koivunen , Eemeli Tomberg , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

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

In a class of single field models of inflation, the idea of Primordial Black holes(PBHs) production is studied. In this case, the dynamics on small cosmological scales differs significantly from that of the large scales probed by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Jayesh C. Jain , Devanshu Sharma , Yogesh

We study the generation of primordial black holes (PBH) in a single field inflection point model of inflation wherein the effective potential is expanded up to the sextic order and the inversion symmetry is imposed such that only even…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-20 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Rajeev Kumar Jain

We discuss two-stage dilaton-axion inflation models [1] and describe $\alpha$-attractor models with either exponential or polynomial approach to the plateau. We implement one of the models of primordial black hole production proposed in [2]…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde

We study the impact of stochastic noise on the generation of primordial black hole (PBH) seeds in ultra-slow-roll (USR) inflation with numerical simulations. We consider the non-linearity of the system by consistently taking into account…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Daniel G. Figueroa , Sami Raatikainen , Syksy Rasanen , Eemeli Tomberg

We present a complete numerical treatment of inflationary dynamics under the influence of stochastic corrections from sub-Hubble modes. We discuss how to exactly model the stochastic noise terms arising from the sub-Hubble quantum modes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Aritra De , Rafid Mahbub

Stochastic inflation describes the global structure of the inflationary universe by modeling the super-Hubble dynamics as a system of matter fields coupled to gravity where the sub-Hubble field fluctuations induce a stochastic force into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew J. Tolley , Mark Wyman

We carry out numerical investigations of the dynamics and perturbations in the Nflation model of Dimopoulos et al. (2005). This model features large numbers of scalar fields with different masses, which can cooperate to drive inflation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Soo A Kim , Andrew R Liddle