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2. Power spectrum with $k^6$ growth for primordial black holes

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Zhai, Rongrong, Yu, Hongwei, and Wu, Puxun

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The decrease of both the rolling speed of the inflaton and the sound speed of the curvature perturbations can amplify the curvature perturbations during inflation so as to generate a sizable amount of primordial black holes. In the ultraslow-roll inflation scenario, it has been found that the power spectrum of curvature perturbations has a $k^4$ growth. In this paper, we find that when the speed of sound decreases suddenly, the curvature perturbations becomes scale dependent in the infrared limit and the power spectrum of the curvature perturbation only has a $k^2$ growth. Furthermore, by studying the evolution of the power spectrum in the inflation model, in which both the sound speed of the curvature perturbations and the rolling speed of the inflaton are reduced, we find that the power spectrum is nearly scale invariant at the large scales to satisfy the constraint from the cosmic microwave background radiation observations, and at the same time can be enhanced at the small scales to result in an abundant formation of primordial black holes. In the cases of the simultaneous changes of the sound speed and the slow-roll parameter $\eta$ and the change of the sound speed preceding that of the slow-roll parameter $\eta$, the power spectrum can possess a $k^6$ growth under certain conditions, which is the steepest growth of the power spectrum reported so far., Comment: 29 pages, 14 figures, to appear in PRD, several refs added

Published
2023

4. Growth of power spectrum due to decrease of sound speed during inflation

Author

Zhai, Rongrong, Yu, Hongwei, and Wu, Puxun

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract

We study the amplification of the curvature perturbations due to a small sound speed and find that its origin is different completely from that due to the ultraslow-roll inflation. This is because when the sound speed is very small the enhancement of the power spectrum comes from the fact that the curvature perturbations at the scales smaller than the cosmic microwave background (CMB) scale becomes scale-variant, rather than growing that leads to the amplification of the curvature perturbations during the ultraslow-roll inflation. At large scales the power spectrum of the curvature perturbations remains to be scale invariant, which is consistent with the CMB observations, and then it will have a transient $k^2$ growth and finally approach a $k^4$ growth as the scale becomes smaller and smaller. Thus the power spectrum can be enhanced to generate a sizable amount of primordial black holes. Furthermore, when the high order correction in the dispersion relation of the curvature perturbations is considered the growth of the power spectrum of the curvature perturbations has the same origin as that in the case without this correction., Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure. three references added

Published
2022
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