https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12560-9
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Nanohertz gravitational waves from supergravity inflationary model with double-inflection-point
1
School of Physics, Xidian University, 710071, Xi’an, China
2
Department of Physics, Baoding University, 071000, Baoding, China
3
School of science, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, 114051, Anshan, China
Received:
28
November
2023
Accepted:
14
February
2024
Published online:
26
February
2024
Recently, the worldwide pulsar timing array(PTA) collaborations, such as the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (CPTA), the European PulsarTiming Array (EPTA), the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) and the Parkers Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) published the analysis of PTA data, which is consistent with the Hellings–Downs curve, thus provides evidence for the existence of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (SGWB). In this paper, we will show that such SGWB signal observed by PTA can be explained by the gravitational waves (GWs) induced from double-inflection-point inflationary model in the framework of supergravity with a single chiral superfield. In this model, one of the inflection points leads to a large peak in the scalar power spectrum at small scales, and when this peak re-enters the horizon, it will induce GWs with the frequencies around nanohertz. In addition, we show that the high-density regions corresponding to the peak can collapse into planet-mass primordial black holes (PBHs), thus act as a component of dark matter (DM).
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