Generating PBHs and small-scale GWs in two-field models of inflation

• Published in: Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics Vol. 2020; no. 8; p. 1
• Main Authors: Braglia, Matteo, Hazra, Dhiraj Kumar, Finelli, Fabio, Smoot, George F., Sriramkumar, L., Starobinsky, Alexei A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.08.2020
• Subjects: Arrays; Black holes; Dark matter; Gravitation; Gravitational collapse; Gravitational waves; Mathematical models; Pulsars
• ISSN: 1475-7516; 1475-7516
• DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/08/001

Primordial black holes (PBHs) generated by gravitational collapse of large primordial overdensities can be a fraction of the observed dark matter. In this paper, we introduce a mechanism to produce a large peak in the primordial power spectrum (PPS) in two-field inflationary models characterized by two stages of inflation based on a large non-canonical kinetic coupling. This mechanism is generic to several two-field inflationary models, due to a temporary tachyonic instability of the isocurvature perturbations at the transition between the two stages of inflation. We numerically compute the primordial perturbations from largest scales to the small scales corresponding to that of PBHs using an extension of BINGO (BI-spectra and Non-Gaussianity Operator). Moreover we numerically compute the stochastic background of gravitational waves (SBGW) produced by second order scalar perturbations within frequencies ranging from nano-Hz to KHz that covers the observational scales corresponding to Pulsar Timing Arrays, Square Kilometer Array to that of Einstein telescope. We discuss the prospect of its detection by these proposed and upcoming gravitational waves experiments.