Primordial black holes and secondary gravitational waves from the Higgs field

We devise a novel mechanism and for the first time demonstrate that the Higgs model in particle physics can drive the inflation to satisfy the cosmic microwave background observations and simultaneously enhance the curvature perturbations at small scales to explain the abundance of dark matter in our universe in the form of primordial black holes. The production of primordial black holes is accompanied by the secondary gravitational waves induced by the first order Higgs fluctuations which is expected observable by space-based gravitational wave detectors. We propose possible cosmological probes of Higgs field in the future observations for primordial black holes dark matter or stochastic gravitational waves.

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Researchers have proposed a novel mechanism to demonstrate the ability of the Higgs model in particle physics to drive inflation in the universe. The study also suggests that secondary gravitational waves induced by Higgs fluctuations could provide clues for detecting primordial black holes.