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 …

Explaining pulsar timing array observations with primordial gravitational waves in parity-violating gravity

C Fu, J Liu, XY Yang, WW Yu, Y Zhang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have recently suggested the presence of a
gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. In this paper, we explore potential …

Probing the equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays

L Liu, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The recently released data by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have amassed
substantial evidence corroborating the existence of a stochastic signal consistent with a …

Constraints on primordial curvature power spectrum with pulsar timing arrays

ZQ You, Z Yi, Y Wu - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The stochastic signal detected by NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA, and CPTA can be explained by
the scalar-induced gravitational waves. In order to determine the scalar-induced …

[HTML][HTML] Primordial non-Gaussianity as a saviour for PBH overproduction in SIGWs generated by Pulsar Timing Arrays for Galileon inflation

S Choudhury, K Dey, A Karde, S Panda, M Sami - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate the explicit role of negative local non-Gaussianity, f NL, in suppressing the
abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the single-field model of Galileon inflation …

Model-independent reconstruction of the primordial curvature power spectrum from PTA data

Z Yi, ZQ You, Y Wu - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently released data from pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations provide strong
evidence for a stochastic signal consistent with a gravitational-wave background, potentially …

[HTML][HTML] Scalar induced gravity waves from ultra slow-roll Galileon inflation

S Choudhury, A Karde, S Panda, M Sami - Nuclear Physics B, 2024 - Elsevier
We consider the production of secondary gravity waves in Galileon inflation with an ultra-
slow roll (USR) phase and show that the spectrum of scalar-induced gravitational waves …

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 …

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 …