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Here, we explore the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) within a scalar field inflationary model coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term, incorporating the low-scale spontaneously broken supersymmetric (SB SUSY) potential. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 A. Ashrafzadeh , M. Solbi , S. Heydari , K. Karami

We re-analyse current single-field inflationary models related to primordial black holes formation. We do so by taking into account recent developments on the estimations of their abundances and the influence of non-gaussianities. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-14 Vicente Atal , Cristiano Germani

This paper explores the consequences of non-Gaussian cosmological perturbations for the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs). A non-Gaussian probability distribution function (PDF) of curvature perturbations is presented with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-31 J. C. Hidalgo

Primordial black-hole formation depends exponentially on the far tail of the primordial curvature-perturbation distribution. That sensitivity makes the small-scale collapse problem a sharp probe of primordial non-Gaussianity. We study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Owais Farooq , Romana Zahoor , Balungi Francis

We study the dynamics of a spectator Higgs field which stochastically evolves during inflation onto near-critical trajectories on the edge of a runaway instability. We show that its fluctuations do not produce primordial black holes (PBHs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Samuel Passaglia , Wayne Hu , Hayato Motohashi

We study the generation of primordial black holes (PBH) in a single field inflection point model of inflation wherein the effective potential is expanded up to the sextic order and the inversion symmetry is imposed such that only even…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-20 Nilanjandev Bhaumik , Rajeev Kumar Jain

Primordial black holes could have been formed in the early universe from sufficiently large cosmological perturbations re-entering the horizon when the Universe is still radiation dominated. These originate from the spectrum of curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-24 Alex Kehagias , Ilia Musco , Antonio Riotto

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

Primordial black holes (PBH) may form from large cosmological perturbations, produced during inflation when the inflaton's velocity is sufficiently slowed down. This usually requires very flat regions in the inflationary potential. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Vadim Briaud , Vincent Vennin

The abundance of primordial black holes changes in the presence of local non-Gaussianity. A positive non-linear parameter $f_{NL}$ increases the abundance while a negative one reduces it. We show that in non-attractor single-field models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Hassan Firouzjahi , Antonio Riotto

We investigate the formation of primordial black hole (PBH) based on numerical relativity simulations and peak theory as well as the corresponding scalar induced gravitational wave (SIGW) signals in the presence of \emph{logarithmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Ryoto Inui , Cristian Joana , Hayato Motohashi , Shi Pi , Yuichiro Tada , Shuichiro Yokoyama

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

The gravitationally enhanced friction can reduce the speed of the inflaton to realize an ultra-slow-roll inflation, which will amplify the curvature perturbations. The amplified perturbations can generate a sizable amount of primordial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-27 Li-Yang Chen , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

Primordial black holes may owe their origin to the small-scale enhancement of the comoving curvature perturbation generated during inflation. Their mass fraction at formation is markedly sensitive to possible non-Gaussianities in such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-13 G. Franciolini , A. Kehagias , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

In light of recent developments in the field, we re-evaluate the effect of local-type non-Gaussianity on the primordial black hole (PBH) abundance (and consequently, upon constraints on the primordial power spectrum arising from PBHs). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-26 Sam Young

Primordial black holes (PBHs) generated by gravitational collapse of large primordial overdensities can be a fraction of the observed dark matter. In this paper, we introduce a mechanism to produce a large peak in the primordial power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Matteo Braglia , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Fabio Finelli , George F. Smoot , L. Sriramkumar , Alexei A. Starobinsky

Primordial black holes (PBHs) provide an exciting prospect for accounting for dark matter. In this paper, we consider inflationary models that incorporate realistic features from high-energy physics -- including multiple interacting scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-30 Sarah R. Geller , Wenzer Qin , Evan McDonough , David I. Kaiser

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

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

The production of Primordial Black Holes (PBH) from inflationary perturbations provides a physical process where the effective classicality of the fluctuations does not hold for certain scales. For adiabatic perturbations produced during…

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