Primordial Black Holes from Inflation and Quantum Diffusion

Abstract

Primordial black holes as dark matter may be generated in single-field models of inflation thanks to the enhancement at small scales of the comoving curvature perturbation. This mechanism requires leaving the slow-roll phase to enter a non-attractor phase during which the inflaton travels across a plateau and its velocity drops down exponentially. We argue that quantum diffusion has a significant impact on the primordial black hole mass fraction making the classical standard prediction not trustable.

25+12 pages, 12 figures. v3: Appendix added with comments in response to arXiv:1807.09057

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