Pitfalls of a power-law parametrization of the primordial power spectrum for primordial black hole formation

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) can form in the radiation dominated early Universe from the collapse of large density perturbations produced by inflation. A power-law parameterisation of the primordial power spectrum is often used to extrapolate from cosmological scales, where the amplitude of the per...

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Main Author: Green, Anne M.
Format: Article
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53144/