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The most promising mechanism of generating PBHs is by the enhancement of power spectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation, which is usually accompanied by the the enhancement of non-Gaussianity that crucially changes the abundance of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Shi Pi

In all inflationary scenarios of primordial black holes (PBH) formation, amplified scalar perturbations inevitably accompany an induced stochastic gravitational waves background (ISGWB) at smaller scales. In this paper, we study the ISGWB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Rajeev Kumar Jain

We investigate primordial black hole (PBH) formation in a cosmological scenario where curvature perturbations follow purely quadratic non-Gaussianity, $\zeta = A(\phi^2-\langle\phi^2\rangle)$, arising from tachyonic instability in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 He-Xu Zhang , Mei Huang

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

The inflationary diffusion of (pseudo-)scalar fields with discrete symmetries can seed the formation of a gas of closed domain walls after inflation, when the distance between degenerate minima in field space is not too far from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Miguel Faria , Ricardo Z. Ferreira , Fabrizio Rompineve

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) could be the cold dark matter of the universe. They could have arisen from large (order one) curvature fluctuations produced during inflation that reentered the horizon in the radiation era. At reentry, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Marco Peloso , Caner Unal

We resolve the potential-restriction problem in K/G inflation by introducing nonminimal coupling. In this context, Higgs field successfully drives inflation satisfying CMB observations while enhancing curvature perturbations at small…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Jiong Lin , Shengqing Gao , Yungui Gong , Yizhou Lu , Zhongkai Wang , Fengge Zhang

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can be produced from inflation if the primordial curvature power spectrum is strongly enhanced on scales much shorter than those probed by cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. In single-field models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Laura Iacconi

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

We present a novel mechanism for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs). The mechanism is based on a period of thermal inflation followed by fast-roll inflation due to tachyonic mass of order the Hubble scale. Large perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-02 Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Tommi Markkanen , Antonio Racioppi , Ville Vaskonen

Primordial black hole (PBH) formation is a more generic phenomenon than was once thought. The dynamics of a scalar field in inflationary universe can produce PBHs under mild assumptions regarding the scalar potential. In the early universe,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-04 Eric Cotner , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki , Volodymyr Takhistov

The amplitude of the detected stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) measured by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and the discovery of early and over-massive central black holes at high redshift by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 D. Martín-González

We determine the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the context of non-gaussian models with primordial density perturbations. We consider models with a renormalized $\chi^2$ probability distribution function parametrized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 P. P. Avelino

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

We performed the detailed analysis of the primordial black hole (PBH) formation mechanism in an axionlike curvaton model with a coupling to inflaton. The phase direction of the complex scalar works as a curvaton and produces enough PBHs to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-25 Kenta Ando , Masahiro Kawasaki , Hiromasa Nakatsuka

The recent observations of the gravitational waves (GWs) by LIGO-Virgo collaboration infer the increasing possibility of the primordial black holes (PBHs). Recently it was pointed out that sufficient PBHs are produced by the Affleck-Dine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Fuminori Hasegawa , Masahiro Kawasaki

We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) from the collapse of density perturbations induced by primordial gravitational waves (PGWs). The PGWs' interpretation of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) detected by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Utkarsh Kumar

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

During the preheating process at the end of inflation the amplification of field fluctuations can lead to the amplification of curvature perturbations. If the curvature perturbations on small scales are sufficiently large, primordial black…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-31 Anne M Green , Karim A Malik

Primordial Black Hole (PBH) is one of the leading non-particle candidates for dark matter (DM). Although several observations severely constrain the amount of PBHs, it is recently pointed out that there is an uncertainty on the microlensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Tsutomu T. Yanagida
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