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We present a complete analytic and semi-analytic study of gravitational collapse and primordial black hole (PBH) formation in the quadratic $f(R)$ model $f(R)=R+\alpha R^2$. We first derive the perturbative expansion around General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 G. G. L. Nashed

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may form in the early universe when pre-existing adiabatic density fluctuations enter into the cosmological horizon and recollapse. It has been suggested that PBH formation may be facilitated when fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Jedamzik , J. C. Niemeyer

We explore the role of non-Gaussian fluctuations in primordial black hole (PBH) formation and show that the standard Gaussian assumption, used in all PBH formation papers to date, is not justified. Since large spikes in power are usually…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 James S. Bullock , Joel R. Primack

[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 propose a novel scenario to produce abundant primordial black holes (PBHs) in new inflation which is a second phase of a double inflation in the supergravity frame work. In our model, some preinflation phase before the new inflation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-04 Masahiro Kawasaki , Alexander Kusenko , Yuichiro Tada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Here, generation of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) from quartic potential in the presence of a tiny bump in non-canonical inflationary model has been inquired. It is demonstrated that, a viable inflationary era can be driven through the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Soma Heydari , Kayoomars Karami

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

Primordial black hole (PBH) abundance limits constrain the primordial power spectrum, and hence models of inflation, on scales far smaller than those probed by cosmological observations. Single field inflation models which are compatible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Amandeep S. Josan , Anne M. Green

Primordial black holes (PBHs) can form in the early Universe from the collapse of rare, large density fluctuations. They have never been observed, but this fact is enough to constrain the amplitude of fluctuations on very small scales which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-20 Sam Young , Christian T. Byrnes

Supercooled first-order phase transition (FOPT) can lead to the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs). This scenario imposes stringent requirements on the profile of the effective potential. In this work, we use the singlet extended…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-18 Dorival Gonçalves , Ajay Kaladharan , Yongcheng Wu

In the curvaton scenario, the curvature perturbation is generated after inflation at the curvaton decay, which may have a prominent non-Gaussian effect. For a model with a non-trivial kinetic term, an enhanced curvature perturbation on a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Shi Pi , Misao Sasaki

In this paper, we update the peak theory for the estimation of the primordial black hole (PBH) abundance, particularly by implementing the critical behavior in the estimation of the PBH mass and employing the averaged compaction function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Naoya Kitajima , Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Chul-Moon Yoo

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are dark matter candidates that span broad mass ranges from $10^{-17}$ $M_\odot$ to $\sim 100$ $M_\odot$. We show that the stochastic gravitational wave background can be a powerful window for the detection of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Suvodip Mukherjee , Matthew S. P. Meinema , Joseph Silk

We show that a hybrid inflation model with multiple waterfall fields can result in the formation of primordial black hole (PBH) with an astrophysical size, by using an advanced algorithm to follow the stochastic dynamics of the waterfall…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Yuichiro Tada , Masaki Yamada

We propose a new single field inflation model in which the usual slow-roll inflation is joined to a new period of slow-climb and slow-roll inflation through a short intermediate non-inflationary phase. We then show that primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

We calculate the mass distribution of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) produced during metric preheating. After inflation, the oscillations of the inflaton at the bottom of its potential source a parametric resonant instability for small-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Pierre Auclair , Vincent Vennin

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

This Letter explores the potential role of primordial black holes (PBHs) to address cosmological tensions as the presence of more massive than expected galaxies at high redshifts, as indicated by recent James Webb Space Telescope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 P. E. Colazo , F. Stasyszyn , N. Padilla

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

In this work, we have performed numerical simulations of primordial black hole (PBH) formation in the Friedman-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker universe filled by radiation fluid, introducing the local-type non-Gaussianity to the primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Albert Escrivà , Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Chul-Moon Yoo