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We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBH) with ultra-slow-roll inflation when stochastic effects are important. We use the $\Delta N$ formalism and simplify the stochastic equations with an analytical constant-roll…

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In recent years, the formation of primordial black holes (PBH) in the early universe inflationary cosmology has garnered significant attention. One plausible scenario for primordial black hole (PBH) formation arises during the preheating…

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Sufficiently large scalar perturbations in the early Universe can create over-dense regions that collapse into primordial black holes (PBH). This process is accompanied by the emission of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGW) that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 Junsong Cang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Yu Gao

Primordial black holes (PBHs) and the violation of the null energy condition (NEC) have significant implications for our understanding of the very early universe. We present a novel approach to generate PBHs via the NEC violation in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 Yong Cai , Mian Zhu , Yun-Song Piao

Various mechanisms have been suggested for the formation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), and this thesis focuses on the standard mechanism based on the critical collapse of cosmological fluctuations. The underlying idea is that during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Antonio Junior Iovino

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

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

If, after primordial inflation, the universe undergoes a relatively long reheating period, it could present a phase of matter domination supported by the oscillating inflaton field. During this epoch, small perturbations from the inflaton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-30 Luis E. Padilla , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Gabriel German

Following a new microlensing constraint on primordial black holes (PBHs) with $\sim10^{20}$--$10^{28}\,\mathrm{g}$~[1], we revisit the idea of PBH as all Dark Matter (DM). We have shown that the updated observational constraints suggest the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Yuichiro Tada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

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

This study explores the realization of nonminimally coupled Higgs inflation in the context of no-scale supergravity, investigates the formation of primordial black holes, and examines the potential for observable proton decay within the…

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The first observations of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified six massive galaxy candidates with the stellar masses $M_\ast\gtrsim 10^{10}\,M_\odot$ at high redshifts $7.4\lesssim z\lesssim 9.1$, with two most massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-09 Bing-Yu Su , Nan Li , Lei Feng

In this work, we explore primordial black holes (PBH) formation scenario during the post-inflationary preheating stage dominated by the inflaton field. We consider, in particular, a model-independent parametrization of the Gaussian peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Daniel del-Corral , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

We revise primordial black holes (PBHs) production in the axion-curvaton model, in light of recent developments in the computation of their abundance accounting for non-gaussianities (NGs) in the curvature perturbation up to all orders. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Giacomo Ferrante , Gabriele Franciolini , Antonio Junior Iovino , Alfredo Urbano

Ultralight primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses $\lesssim 10^{15}$g and subatomic Schwarzschild radii, produced in the early Universe, are expected to have evaporated by the current cosmic age due to Hawking radiation. Based on this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Shasvath J. Kapadia , Kanhaiya Lal Pandey , Teruaki Suyama , Parameswaran Ajith

Recent James Webb Space Telescope observations of high-redshift massive galaxy candidates have initiated renewed interest in the important mystery around the formation and evolution of our Universe's largest supermassive black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-31 Shin'ichiro Ando , Shyam Balaji , Malcolm Fairbairn , Nagisa Hiroshima , Koji Ishiwata

Pulsar Timing Array collaborations have recently announced the discovery of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at nanohertz frequencies. We analyze the GW signals from the domination of ultra-low mass primordial black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Rajeev Kumar Jain , Marek Lewicki

[Abridged] The primordial scalar power spectrum is well constrained on large scales, primarily by the observations of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Over the last few years, it has been recognized that a sharp…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 H. V. Ragavendra , Pankaj Saha , L. Sriramkumar , Joseph Silk

We study sound speed resonance (SSR) mechanism for primordial black hole (PBH) formation in an early universe scenario with inflaton and curvaton being mixed. In this scenario, the total primordial density perturbations can be contributed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 Chao Chen , Yi-Fu Cai

In order to produce appreciable amount of primordial black holes (PBHs), the square amplitude of curvature perturbation must take a large value of $\mathcal{O}(0.01)$, namely, seven digits larger than the value observed by cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 Jason Kristiano , Jun'ichi Yokoyama