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Title: Primordial black holes and local non-Gaussianity in canonical inflation

Journal Article · · Physical Review D
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  1. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Enrico Fermi Inst.
  2. Kyoto Univ. (Japan)

Primordial black holes (PBHs) cannot be produced abundantly enough to be the dark matter in canonical single-field inflation under slow roll. This conclusion is robust to local non-Gaussian correlations between long- and short-wavelength curvature modes, which we show have no effect in slow roll on local primordial black hole abundances. For the prototypical model which evades this no go, ultra-slow roll (USR), these squeezed non-Gaussian correlations have at most an order unity effect on the variance of PBH-producing curvature fluctuations for models that would otherwise fail to form sufficient PBHs. Moreover, the transition out of USR, which is necessary for a success fulmodel, suppresses even this small enhancement unless it causes a large increase in the inflaton kinetic energy in a fraction of ane-fold, which we call a large and fast transition. Along the way we apply the in-in formalism, the $δN$ formalism, and gauge transformations to compute non-Gaussianities and illuminate different aspects of the physical origin of these results. Local non-Gaussianity in the squeezed limit does not weaken the Gaussian conclusion that PBHs as dark matter in canonical single-field inflation require a complicated and fine-tuned potential shape with an epoch where slow roll is transiently violated

Research Organization:
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0009924; FG02-13ER41958
OSTI ID:
1593871
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1496661
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Vol. 99, Issue 4; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 93 works
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