Large fluctuations and primordial black holes

S Choudhury, M Sami - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
In this paper, we review in detail different mechanisms of generation of large primordial
fluctuations and their implications for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and …

PBHs and GWs from 𝕋2-inflation and NANOGrav 15-year data

SAH Mansoori, F Felegary, A Talebian… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism in Bbb T 2-inflation to enhance the power
spectrum large enough to seed primordial black holes (PBHs) formation. To accomplish this …

Gravitational wave signatures of no-scale supergravity in NANOGrav and beyond

S Basilakos, DV Nanopoulos, T Papanikolaou… - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
In this Letter, we derive for the first time a characteristic three-peaked GW signal within the
framework of no-scale Supergravity, being the low-energy limit of Superstring theory. We …

Simultaneously probing the sound speed and equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays

L Liu, Y Wu, ZC Chen - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, several major pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have assembled strong
evidence for the existence of a gravitational-wave background at frequencies around the …

Search for nontensorial gravitational-wave backgrounds in the NANOGrav 15-year dataset

ZC Chen, YM Wu, YC Bi, QG Huang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The recent detection of a stochastic signal in the NANOGrav 15-year dataset has aroused
great interest in uncovering its origin. However, the evidence for the Hellings-Downs …

NANOGrav hints for first-order confinement-deconfinement phase transition in different QCD-matter scenarios

ZC Chen, SL Li, P Wu, H Yu - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Recent observations from several pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have unveiled
compelling evidence for a stochastic signal in the nanohertz band. This signal aligns …

Obviating PBH overproduction for SIGWs generated by pulsar timing arrays in loop corrected EFT of bounce

S Choudhury, S Ganguly, S Panda… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to unravel the present situation of the PBH overproduction problem, our study
emphasizes the critical role played by the equation of state (EoS) parameter w within the …

Prospects for Taiji to detect a gravitational-wave background from cosmic strings

ZC Chen, QG Huang, C Liu, L Liu, XJ Liu… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, multiple pulsar timing array collaborations have presented compelling evidence
for a stochastic signal at nanohertz frequencies, potentially originating from cosmic strings …

Disentangling the primordial nature of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds with CMB spectral distortions

B Cyr, T Kite, J Chluba, JC Hill, D Jeong… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The recent detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at nanohertz
frequencies by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has sparked a flurry of interest. Beyond the …

Supersymmetric U (1) BL flat direction and NANOGrav 15 year data

R Maji, W Park - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that, when connected with monopoles, the flat D-flat direction breaking the local U
(1) BL symmetry as an extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model can be …