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Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) serve as a unique probe to the physics of the early Universe, particularly inflation. In light of this, we study the formation of PBHs by the collapse of overdense perturbations generated during a model of warm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Richa Arya

We investigate a mechanism of primordial black hole (PBH) formation that avoids any dependence on specific inflationary features or exotic physics. In this scenario, the required large curvature fluctuations leading to PBH formation are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Ioanna Stamou , Sebastien Clesse

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

We investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs), their spin and abundance, in a single-field inflationary model based on a mutated hilltop potential inserted with a small step-like feature. This step induces a brief phase of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Abolhassan Mohammadi , Yogesh , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu

In this paper, we show that if passive fluctuations are considered, primordial black holes (PBHs) can be easily produced in the framework of single-field, slow-roll inflation models. The formation of PBHs is due to the blue spectrum of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Chia-Min Lin , Kin-Wang Ng

We investigate the generation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) with the aid of gravitationally increased friction mechanism originated from the NonMinimal field Derivative Coupling (NMDC) to gravity framework, with the quartic potential.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Soma Heydari , Kayoomars Karami

We propose a model of inflation capable of generating a population of light black holes (about $10^{-16}$ - $10^{-14}$ solar masses) that might account for a significant fraction of the dark matter in the Universe. The effective potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-10 Guillermo Ballesteros , Marco Taoso

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

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

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

We study the possibility of the Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) formation with the aim of finding a considerable fraction of Dark Matter (DM), using the gravitationally enhanced friction mechanism which arises from a nonminimal derivative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-20 Zeinab Teimoori , Kazem Rezazadeh , Kayoomars Karami

In this paper, the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) is reinvestigated using inflationary $\alpha$-attractors. Instead of using the conventional Press-Schechter theory to compute the abundance, the optimized peaks theory is used,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Rafid Mahbub

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Daniel del-Corral , Paolo Gondolo , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) have entered the forefront of theoretical cosmology, due their potential role in phenomena ranging from gravitational waves, to dark matter, to galaxy formation. While producing PBHs from inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Keisuke Inomata , Evan McDonough , Wayne Hu

The E-type $\alpha$-attractor models of single-field inflation were generalized further in order to accommodate production of primordial black holes (PBH) via adding a near-inflection point to the inflaton scalar potential at smaller…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Daniel Frolovsky , Sergei V. Ketov

We review the formalism of primordial black holes (PBHs) production and show that the mass variance at horizon crossing has been systematically overestimated in previous studies. We derive the correct expression. The difference is maximal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Torsten Bringmann , Claus Kiefer , David Polarski

We study the possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) can be formed from large curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall phase transition due to the effects of one-loop radiative corrections of Yukawa couplings between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Adeela Afzal , Anish Ghoshal

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form in the early Universe, for instance during radiation domination, from the collapse of large-amplitude density perturbations shortly after horizon re-entry. This mechanism establishes an approximate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Ashu Kushwaha , Teruaki Suyama

We discuss a novel window to probe the origin of our universe via the mass functions of primordial black holes (PBHs). The mass functions of PBHs are simply estimated using the conventional Press-Schechter formalism for two paradigms of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 Yi-Fu Cai , Chengfeng Tang , Geyu Mo , Sheng-Feng Yan , Chao Chen , Xiao-Han Ma , Bo Wang , Wentao Luo , Damien Easson , Antonino Marciano

We study the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) during the preheating stage that follows a chaotic inflationary phase. The scalar fields present in the process are evolved numerically using a modified version of the HLATTICE code.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-30 E. Torres-Lomas , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Karim A. Malik , L. Arturo Ureña-López