Production of high stellar-mass primordial black holes in trapped inflation

Shu Lin Cheng, Wolung Lee*, Kin Wang Ng

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Abstract

Trapped inflation has been proposed to provide a successful inflation with a steep potential. We discuss the formation of primordial black holes in the trapped inflationary scenario. We show that primordial black holes are naturally produced during inflation with a steep trapping potential. In particular, we have given a recipe for an inflaton potential with which particle production can induce large non-Gaussian curvature perturbation that leads to the formation of high stellar-mass primordial black holes. These primordial black holes could be dark matter observed by the LIGO detectors through a binary black-hole merger. At the end, we have given an attempt to realize the required inflaton potential in the axion monodromy inflation, and discussed the gravitational waves sourced by the particle production.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2017
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Feb 1

Keywords

  • Black Holes
  • Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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