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The NANOGrav pulsar timing array experiment reported evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process affecting pulsar timing residuals in its 12.5-year dataset, which might be interpreted as the first detection of a stochastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Sunny Vagnozzi

The recent NANOGrav finding of a common-spectrum process has invited interpretations as possible evidence of a primordial stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) stronger than predicted by standard inflation+LCDM. Such an SGWB would…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 Bohua Li , Paul R. Shapiro

We investigate the possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) can be formed from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition in a supersymmetric scenario where sneutrino is the inflaton in a hybrid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Adeela Afzal , Anish Ghoshal , Stephen F. King

We study inflation driven by a scalar potential arising from composite-sector dynamics, inspired by generalized composite Higgs models. The introduction of a non-minimal coupling, possessing the same functional form as the potential,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Marco Merchand

Holographic space-time, a theory of quantum gravity that generalizes string theory and quantum field theory, predicts black holes in the early matter-dominated era of its models of inflation. Before these black holes can decay, there is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Anish Suresh , Tom Banks

In this Letter, we derive for the first time a characteristic three-peaked GW signal within the framework of no-scale Supergravity, being the low-energy limit of Superstring theory. We concentrate on the primordial gravitational wave (GW)…

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

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 addition to density perturbations, inflationary models of the early universe generally predict a stochastic background of gravitational waves or tensor fluctuations. By making use of the inflationary flow approach for single field models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Brett C. Friedman , Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Melchiorri

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the candidates to explain the gravitational wave (GW) signals observed by the LIGO detectors. Among several phenomena in the early Universe, cosmic inflation is a major example to generate PBHs from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Yuichiro Tada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

In scale-invariant models of fundamental physics all mass scales are generated via spontaneous symmetry breaking. In this work, we study inflation in scale-invariant quadratic gravity, in which the Planck mass is generated classically by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-05 Anish Ghoshal , Debangshu Mukherjee , Massimiliano Rinaldi

The possibility that in the mass range around $10^{-12}\ M_\odot$ most of dark matter constitutes of primordial black holes (PBHs) is a very interesting topic. To produce PBHs with this mass, the primordial scalar power spectrum needs to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-15 Jiong Lin , Qing Gao , Yungui Gong , Yizhou Lu , Chao Zhang , Fengge Zhang

We investigate the formation of primordial black hole (PBH) based on numerical relativity simulations and peak theory as well as the corresponding scalar induced gravitational wave (SIGW) signals in the presence of \emph{logarithmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Ryoto Inui , Cristian Joana , Hayato Motohashi , Shi Pi , Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

Next generation cosmic microwave background spectral distortion and pulsar timing array experiments have the potential to probe primordial fluctuations at small scales with remarkable sensitivity. We demonstrate the potential of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Caner Unal , Ely D. Kovetz , Subodh P. Patil

We investigate a cosmological model, based on the Salam-Sezgin six-dimensional supergravity theory and on previous work by Anchordoqui, Goldberg, Nawata, and Nu\~nez. Assuming a period of warm inflation, we show that it is possible to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 Alfredo B. Henriques , Robertus Potting , Paulo M. Sá

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

The data recently released by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) provides compelling evidence supporting the existence of a stochastic signal that aligns with a gravitational-wave background. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zhu Yi , Zhi-Qiang You , You Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Lang Liu

Pre--big bang models of inflation based on string cosmology produce a stochastic gravitational wave background whose spectrum grows with decreasing wavelength, and which may be detectable using interferometers such as LIGO. We point out…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Edmund J Copeland , Andrew R Liddle , James E Lidsey , David Wands

Here, generation of PBHs and secondary GWs from non-canonical inflation with quartic potential have been probed. It is illustrated that, quartic potential in non-canonical setup with a generalized power-law Lagrangian density can source a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-08 Soma Heydari , Kayoomars Karami

We study a double inflation model (a hybrid inflation + a new inflation) in supergravity and discuss the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) with mass \sim 10^{-20}-10^{5}M_{\odot}. We find that in a wide range of parameter space, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Toshiyuki Kanazawa , M. Kawasaki , T. Yanagida