Particle Physics Challenges

Primordial black holes from single-field inflation

26 Sept 2018, 14:00

20m

Seminar room 4b (SR 4b) (DESY Hamburg)

Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics Parallel Session: Cosmo 2

Speaker

Guillermo Ballesteros (IFT UAM-CSIC)

Description

I will discuss the formation of primordial black holes from single-field inflation. If time permits, I will also explain why the two-point statistics of primordial black holes is important to estimate their present merger rate