Primordial black holes from inflation and quantum diffusion

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Publication date 07-2018
Journal Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Article number 032
Volume | Issue number 2018 | 7
Number of pages 36
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
Abstract

Primordial black holes as dark matter may be generated in single-field models of inflation thanks to the enhancement at small scales of the comoving curvature perturbation. This mechanism requires leaving the slow-roll phase to enter a non-attractor phase during which the inflaton travels across a plateau and its velocity drops down exponentially. We argue that quantum diffusion has a significant impact on the primordial black hole mass fraction making the classical standard prediction not trustable.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/07/032
Published at http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07124
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85051701446
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