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The effect of large quantum fluctuations on primordial black-hole formation during an inflationary phase along a plateau is investigated. By using techniques of stochastic inflation in combination with replica field theory and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-06 Florian Kuhnel , Katherine Freese

The formation of primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter and the generation of scalar induced secondary gravitational waves (SIGWs) have been studied in the generic no-scale supergravity inflationary models. By adding an exponential term to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-30 Lina Wu , Yungui Gong , Tianjun Li

We investigate the formation of large peaks in the inflationary curvature power spectrum from double-well potentials. In such scenarios, the initial CMB spectrum is created at large field values. Subsequently, the inflaton will cross one of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Alexandros Karam , Niko Koivunen , Eemeli Tomberg , Antonio Racioppi , Hardi Veermäe

We study a mechanism for the amplification of the inflationary scalar perturbation when the inflaton field action is non-canonical, i.e. the inflaton kinetic term has a non-standard form. For such a case the speed of sound of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Alexander Y. Kamenshchik , Alessandro Tronconi , Tereza Vardanyan , Giovanni Venturi

The most widely studied formation mechanism of a primordial black hole is collapse of large-amplitude perturbation on small scales generated in single-field inflation. In this Letter, we calculate one-loop correction to the large-scale…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-30 Jason Kristiano , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Next generation cosmic microwave background spectral distortion and pulsar timing array experiments have the potential to probe primordial fluctuations at small scales with remarkable sensitivity. We demonstrate the potential of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Caner Unal , Ely D. Kovetz , Subodh P. Patil

We revisit the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) by a U(1) gauge field with a pseudo-scalar coupling to the inflaton. We improve upon the existing literature by working in the homogeneous backreaction regime with numerically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Gabriele Franciolini , Nadir Ijaz , Marco Peloso

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may have formed through the gravitational collapse of cosmological perturbations that were generated and stretched during the inflationary era, later entering the cosmological horizon during the decelerating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Tomohiro Harada

We investigate the amplification of curvature perturbations in a two-field inflation model featuring a Gaussian potential bump. When the inflaton encounters a potential bump along the inflationary trajectory, its rolling speed is generally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Chengjie Fu , Chao Chen

Previous authors have calculated the mass function of primordial black holes only on scales which are well outside the horizon at the end of inflation. Here we extend the calculation to sub-horizon scales, on which the density perturbation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 David. H Lyth , Karim A. Malik , Misao Sasaki , Ignacio Zaballa

We consider the process of primordial black hole (PBH) formation originated from primordial curvature perturbations produced during waterfall transition (with tachyonic instability), at the end of hybrid inflation. It is known that in such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-08 Edgar Bugaev , Peter Klimai

The discoveries of LIGO/Virgo black holes in recent years have revitalized the study of primordial black holes. In this work, we investigate a mechanism where primordial black holes are formed by vacuum bubbles that randomly nucleate during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Heling Deng

We devise a novel mechanism and for the first time demonstrate that the Higgs model in particle physics can drive the inflation to satisfy the cosmic microwave background observations and simultaneously enhance the curvature perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Zhu Yi , Yungui Gong , Bin Wang , Zong-hong Zhu

We explore how inflationary features shape the early stages of cosmic structure formation. Using the transfer function formalism, we trace the evolution of primordial perturbations, showing how causal physics and oscillatory signatures from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 K. El Bourakadi , M. Yu. Khlopov , M. Krasnov , H. Chakir , M. Bennai

We propose a novel model of the modified (Starobinsky-like) old-minimal-type supergravity coupled to a chiral matter superfield, that can {\it simultaneously} describe multi-field inflation, primordial black hole (PBH) formation, dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-09 Yermek Aldabergenov , Andrea Addazi , Sergei V. Ketov

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

It has been shown that black holes would have formed in the early Universe if, on any given scale, the spectral amplitude of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) exceeds 10^(-4). This value is within the bounds allowed by astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Laila Alabidi , Kazunori Kohri

Holographic space-time, a theory of quantum gravity that generalizes string theory and quantum field theory, predicts black holes in the early matter-dominated era of its models of inflation. Before these black holes can decay, there is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Anish Suresh , Tom Banks

We propose a new mechanism for the formation of seeds of supermassive black holes at early cosmic epochs. Enhanced density fluctuations with amplitudes that are not large enough to form primordial black holes post-inflation can still lead…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-26 Wenzer Qin , Soubhik Kumar , Priyamvada Natarajan , Neal Weiner

We investigate a model of $R^2$-gravity with a non-minimally coupled scalar field that gives rise to two-stage inflation with a break, that is, with an intermediate stage where inflation momentarily halts. We find that the power spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 Xinpeng Wang , Ying-li Zhang , Misao Sasaki