Primordial Black Holes from Volkov–Akulov–Starobinsky Supergravity

2023

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DOI 10.1002/prop.202300039
Data confidence 70 medium
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Abstract

Abstract We study the formation of primordial black holes (PBH) in the Starobinsky supergravity coupled to the nilpotent superfield describing Volkov–Akulov goldstino. By using the no‐scale Kähler potential and a polynomial superpotential, we find that under certain conditions our model can describe effectively single‐field inflation with the ultra‐slow‐roll phase that appears near a critical (near‐inflection) point of the scalar potential. This can lead to the formation of PBH as part of (or whole) dark matter, while keeping the inflationary spectral tilt and the tensor‐to‐scalar ratio in good agreement with the current cosmic microwave background (CMB) bounds. After inflation, supersymmetry is spontaneously broken at the inflationary scale with the vanishing cosmological constant.