Published December 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

On primordial black holes from an inflection point

  • 1. Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Mart Franqus 1, E08028 Barcelona (Spain)
  • 2. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Spinoza Institute and EMMEPHI, Utrecht University, Postbox 80.195, 3508 TD Utrecht (Netherlands)

Description

Recently, it has been claimed that inflationary models with an inflection point in the scalar potential can produce a large resonance in the power spectrum of curvature perturbation. In this paper however we show that the previous analyses are incorrect. The reason is twofold: firstly, the inflaton is over-shot from a stage of standard inflation and so deviates from the slow-roll attractor before reaching the inflection. Secondly, on the (or close to) the inflection point, the ultra-slow-roll trajectory supersede the slow-roll one and thus, the slow-roll approximations used in the literature cannot be used. We then reconsider the model and provide a recipe for how to produce nevertheless a large peak in the matter power spectrum via fine-tuning of parameters.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2017.09.001

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.dark.2017.09.001;
PII
S2212686417300432;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics of the Dark Universe
Journal Volume
18
Journal Page Range
p. 6-10
ISSN
2212-6864

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
51066260
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
APPROXIMATIONS; ATTRACTORS; BLACK HOLES; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; INFLATONS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; TRAJECTORIES
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; POSTULATED PARTICLES

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