Exploring the NANOGrav Signal and Planet-mass Primordial Black Holes through Higgs Inflation

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Autores principales: Yi, Zhu, You, Zhi-Qiang, Wu, You, Chen, Zu-Cheng, Liu, Lang
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author Yi, Zhu
You, Zhi-Qiang
Wu, You
Chen, Zu-Cheng
Liu, Lang
author_facet Yi, Zhu
You, Zhi-Qiang
Wu, You
Chen, Zu-Cheng
Liu, Lang
contents The data recently released by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) provides compelling evidence supporting the existence of a stochastic signal that aligns with a gravitational-wave background. We show that the scalar-induced gravitational waves from the Higgs inflation model with the parametric amplification mechanism can explain this signal. Such a gravitational-wave background naturally predicts the substantial existence of planet-mass primordial black holes, which can be planet 9 in our solar system and the lensing objects for the ultrashort-timescale microlensing events observed by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Therefore, the NANOGrav signal, the potential Planet 9 in our solar system, and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment can be explained within the framework of Higgs inflation.
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spellingShingle Exploring the NANOGrav Signal and Planet-mass Primordial Black Holes through Higgs Inflation
Yi, Zhu
You, Zhi-Qiang
Wu, You
Chen, Zu-Cheng
Liu, Lang
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
The data recently released by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) provides compelling evidence supporting the existence of a stochastic signal that aligns with a gravitational-wave background. We show that the scalar-induced gravitational waves from the Higgs inflation model with the parametric amplification mechanism can explain this signal. Such a gravitational-wave background naturally predicts the substantial existence of planet-mass primordial black holes, which can be planet 9 in our solar system and the lensing objects for the ultrashort-timescale microlensing events observed by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Therefore, the NANOGrav signal, the potential Planet 9 in our solar system, and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment can be explained within the framework of Higgs inflation.
title Exploring the NANOGrav Signal and Planet-mass Primordial Black Holes through Higgs Inflation
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14688