Axion inflation with gauge field production and primordial black holes

作者:Bugaev Edgar*; Klimai Peter
来源:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2014, 90(10): 103501.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.103501

摘要

We study the process of primordial black hole (PBH) formation at the beginning of the radiation era for the cosmological scenario in which the inflaton is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (axion) and there is a coupling of the inflaton with some gauge field. In this model inflation is accompanied by the gauge quanta production, and a strong rise of the curvature power spectrum amplitude at small scales (along with non-Gaussianity) is predicted. We show that data on PBH searches can be used for a derivation of essential constraints on the model parameters in such an axion inflation scenario.

  • 出版日期2014-11-5