Primordial black holes generated by the non-minimal spectator field

We improve and generalize the non-minimal curvaton model originally proposed in arXiv: 2112.12680 to a model in which a spectator field non-minimally couples to an inflaton field and the power spectrum of the perturbation of spectator field at small scales is dramatically enhanced by the sharp feature in the form of non-minimal coupling. At or after the end of inflation, the perturbation of the spectator field is converted into curvature perturbation and leads to the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs). Furthermore, for example, we consider three phenomenological models for generating PBHs with mass function peaked at similar to 10(-12) M-circle dot and representing all the cold dark matter in our universe and find that the scalar induced gravitational waves generated by the curvature perturbation can be detected by the future space-borne gravitational-wave detectors such as Taiji, TianQin, and LISA.

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We extend the non-minimal curvaton model to include a spectator field that non-minimally couples to an inflaton field, resulting in a dramatic enhancement of the power spectrum of the spectator field perturbation at small scales due to a sharp feature in the form of non-minimal coupling. The perturbation of the spectator field is converted into curvature perturbation, leading to the formation of primordial black holes, and we find that the scalar induced gravitational waves generated by the curvature perturbation can be detected by future space-borne gravitational-wave detectors such as Taiji, TianQin, and LISA.