Primordial black hole production during preheating in a chaotic inflationary model

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In this paper we review the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) during preheating after a chaotic inflationary model.

• All relevant equations of motion are solved numerically in a modified version of HLattice, and we then calculate the mass variance to determine structure formation during preheating.
• It is found that production of PBHs can be a generic result of the model, even though the results seem to be sensitive to the values of the smoothing scale.
• We consider a constraint for overproduction of PBHs that could uncover some stress between inflation-preheating models and observations.