Questions on calculation of primordial power spectrum with large spikes: the resonance model case

Abstract

Inflationary models predicting a scale-dependent large amplification of the density perturbations have recently attracted a lot of attention because the amplified perturbations can seed a sizable amount of primordial black holes (PBHs) and stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWs). While the power spectra in these models are computed based on the linear equation of motion, it is not obvious whether loop corrections are negligible when such a large amplification occurs during inflation. In this paper, as a first step to discuss the loop corrections in such models, we use the in-in formalism and calculate the one-loop scalar power spectrum numerically and analytically in an illustrative model where the density perturbations are resonantly amplified due to oscillatory features in the inflaton potential. Our calculation is technically new in that the amplified perturbations are numerically taken into account in the in-in formalism for the first time. In arriving at our analytical estimates, we highlight the role that the Wronskian condition of perturbations, automatically satisfied in our model, plays in obtaining the correct estimates. We also discuss the necessary conditions for subdominant loop corrections in this model. We find that, for the typical parameter space leading to the $\mathcal{O}(10^7)$ amplification of the power spectrum required for a sufficient PBH production, the one-loop power spectrum dominates over the tree-level one, indicating the breakdown of the perturbation theory.

arXiv comment42 pages, 14 figures, v3: An error in the equation of the two-vertex contribution corrected. Accordingly, the splitting of the two-vertex contribution changed and Appendix B added. The final one-loop power spectrum becomes smaller than the previous results, whereas the main conclusion (the typical oscillatory models lead to dominant loop power spectra) is unchanged

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