11–13 Dec 2023
Botanical Garden of Sapienza University
Europe/Rome timezone

PBHs in no-scale Supergravity and their associated GW signal in Nanograv and beyond

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10m
Botanical Garden of Sapienza University

Botanical Garden of Sapienza University

Largo Cristina di Svezia, 23 A - 24, 00165 Roma (RM)

Speaker

Charalampos Tzerefos (University of Athens)

Description

In this talk, I am going to present our recent work where we derive a characteristic three-peaked GW signal within the framework of no-scale Supergravity, which arises as a low energy limit of superstring theory. We concentrate on the primordial gravitational wave (GW) spectrum induced due to second-order gravitational interactions by inflationary curvature perturbations as well as by isocurvature energy density perturbations of primordial black holes (PBHs) both amplified due to the presence of an early matter-dominated era (eMD) before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). In particular, we work with inflection-point inflationary potentials naturally realised within Wess-Zumino type no-scale Supergravity and giving rise to the formation of microscopic PBHs triggering an eMD era and evaporating before BBN. Remarkably, we obtain an abundant production of gravitational waves at the frequency ranges of nHz, Hz and kHz and in strong agreement with NANOGrav/PTA GW data.

Primary author

Charalampos Tzerefos (University of Athens)

Co-authors

Prof. Dimitri Nanopoulos (Texas A&M University) Dr Emmanuel Saridakis (Observatory of Athens) Prof. Spyros Basilakos (Observatory of Athens) Theodoros Papanikolaou

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