Ruling Out Primordial Black Hole Formation From Single-Field Inflation [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03395


The most widely studied formation mechanism of a primordial black hole (PBH) is collapse of large-amplitude perturbation on small scales generated in single-field inflation. In this Letter, we calculate one-loop correction to the large-scale power spectrum in such a model. We find models producing appreciable amount of PBHs generically induce too large one-loop correction on large scale probed by cosmic microwave background radiation. We therefore conclude that PBH formation from single-field inflation is ruled out.

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J. Kristiano and J. Yokoyama
Tue, 8 Nov 22
22/79

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