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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 101, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.103515
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11875136]
- Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [11690021]
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The possibility that in the mass range around 10(-12) M-circle dot most of dark matter is constituted of primordial black holes (PBHs) is a very interesting topic. To produce PBHs with this mass, the primordial scalar power spectrum needs to be enhanced to the order of 0.01 at the scale k similar to 10(12) mpc(-1). The enhanced power spectrum also produces large secondary gravitational waves at the mHz band. A phenomenological delta function power spectrum is usually used to discuss the production of PBHs and secondary gravitational waves. Based on k and G inflations, we propose a new mechanism to enhance the power spectrum at small scales by introducing a noncanonical kinetic term [1 - 2G(phi)]X with the function -G(phi) having a peak. Away from the peak, G(phi) is negligible and we recover the usual slow-roll inflation which is constrained by the cosmic microwave background anisotropy observations. Around the peak, the slow-roll inflation transiently turns to ultra slow-roll inflation. The enhancement of the power spectrum can be obtained with generic potentials, and there is no need to fine tune the parameters in G(phi) to several significant digits. The energy spectrum Omega(Gw) (f) of secondary gravitational waves produced by the model have the characteristic power law behavior Omega(Gw) (f) similar to f(n) and is testable by pulsar timing array and space based gravitational wave detectors.
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