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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

We investigate the explicit role of negative local non-Gaussianity, $f_{\rm NL}$, in suppressing the abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the single-field model of Galileon inflation. PBH formation requires significantly enhancing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-05 Sayantan Choudhury , Kritartha Dey , Ahaskar Karde , Sudhakar Panda , M. Sami

We examine the possibility of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) formation in single-field models of inflation. Using the adiabatic or wave function renormalization scheme in the short-range modes, we show that one-loop correction to the power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Sayantan Choudhury , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , M. Sami

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

[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

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 present a novel mechanism to generate the cosmic perturbation from evaporation of primordial black holes. A mass of a field is fluctuated if it is given by a vacuum expectation value of a light scalar field because of the quantum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-18 Tomohiro Fujita , Keisuke Harigaya , Masahiro Kawasaki

We investigate an inflationary model with a non-minimal derivative coupling, where the coupling function contains both constant and periodic components. On large scales, the model is in excellent agreement with the latest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Li-Shuai Wang , Qiong-Tao Xie , Li-Yang Chen

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) may form in the early Universe, from the gravitational collapse of large density perturbations, generated by large quantum fluctuations during inflation. Since PBHs form from rare over-densities, their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Swagat S. Mishra , Edmund J. Copeland , Anne M. Green

The primordial black hole (PBH) productions from the inflationary potential with an inflection point usually rely heavily on the fine-tuning of the model parameters. We propose in this work a new kind of the $\alpha$-attractor inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-09 Chengjie Fu , Shao-Jiang Wang

We investigate the possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) can be formed from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition in a hybrid inflation model driven by an axion-like particle (ALP) $\phi$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Waqas Ahmed , Anish Ghoshal , Umer Zubair

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

Ultralight primordial black holes (PBHs) provide a compelling window into early-Universe cosmology. Following our earlier work, we explore a mechanism for the formation of ultralight PBHs sourced by primordial inflationary magnetic fields,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Subhasis Maiti , Debaprasad Maity

We revisit the scenario of primordial black hole (PBH) formation from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition in hybrid inflation models. In a minimal setup considered in the literature, the mass and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Yuichiro Tada , Masaki Yamada

We demonstrate the explicit realisation of the ultra-slow roll phase in the framework of the effective field theory of single-field Galileon inflation. The pulsar timing array (PTA) collaboration hints at the scalar-induced gravity waves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-18 Sayantan Choudhury , Ahaskar Karde , Sudhakar Panda , M. Sami

Using the $\delta N$ formalism we calculate the one-loop correction to the large-scale power spectrum of the curvature perturbation in the standard scenario where primordial black holes are formed in the early universe thanks to a phase of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Hassan Firouzjahi , Antonio Riotto

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form in the early Universe via the collapse of large density perturbations. There are tight constraints on the abundance of PBHs formed due to their gravitational effects and the consequences of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 Amandeep S. Josan , Anne M. Green , Karim A. Malik

Deploying \textit{multiple sharp transitions} (MSTs) under a unified framework, we investigate the formation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) and the production of Scalar Induced Gravitational Waves (SIGWs) by incorporating one-loop…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-08 Gourab Bhattacharya , Sayantan Choudhury , Kritartha Dey , Saptarshi Ghosh , Ahaskar Karde , Navneet Suryaprakash Mishra

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are supposed to form through the gravitational collapse of regions with large density fluctuations. The formation of PBHs inevitably leads to the emission of scalar-induced gravitational wave (SIGW) signals,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Chen Yuan , De-Shuang Meng , Qing-Guo Huang

There is controversy surrounding the origin and evolution of our universe's largest supermassive black holes (SMBHs). In this study, we consider the possibility that some of these black holes formed from the direct collapse of primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-21 Dan Hooper , Aurora Ireland , Gordan Krnjaic , Albert Stebbins