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most citedTurning in the landscape: a new mechanism for generating Primordial Black Holes

108 citations · 442 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.CO2020

Non-Gaussianity after many-field reheating

Pedro Carrilho, David Mulryne, John Ronayne

We numerically investigate reheating after quadratic inflation with up to 65 fields, focusing on the production of non-Gaussianity. We consider several sets of initial conditions,…

hep-th2020★ 108 cited

Turning in the landscape: a new mechanism for generating Primordial Black Holes

Jacopo Fumagalli, Sébastien Renaux-Petel, John W. Ronayne +1

We propose a new model-independent mechanism for producing primordial black holes from a period of multi-field inflation. This requires an enhancement of primordial fluctuations at…

hep-ph2019★ 33 cited

Higgs vacuum (in)stability during inflation: the dangerous relevance of de Sitter departure and Planck-suppressed operators

Jacopo Fumagalli, Sébastien Renaux-Petel, John W. Ronayne

The measured Standard Model parameters lie in a range such that the Higgs potential, once extrapolated up to high scales, develops a minimum of negative energy density. This has im…

hep-th2019★ 63 cited

Hyper non-Gaussianities in inflation with strongly non-geodesic motion

Jacopo Fumagalli, Sebastian Garcia-Saenz, Lucas Pinol +2

Several recent proposals to embed inflation into high-energy physics rely on inflationary dynamics characterized by a strongly non-geodesic motion in negatively curved field space.…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 80 cited

Primordial fluctuations and non-Gaussianities in sidetracked inflation

Sebastian Garcia-Saenz, Sébastien Renaux-Petel, John Ronayne

Heavy scalar fields can undergo an instability during inflation as a result of their kinetic couplings with the inflaton. This is known as the geometrical destabilization of inflat…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 64 cited

Attractor Behaviour in Multifield Inflation

Pedro Carrilho, David Mulryne, John Ronayne +1

We study multifield inflation in scenarios where the fields are coupled non-minimally to gravity via , where are coupling constants, the fields…