The backreaction effect of the sound speed resonance in DBI inflation

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the backreaction of enhanced small-scale scalar perturbations from sound speed resonance in DBI inflation affects background dynamics and primordial black hole formation, showing minimal impact on PBH predictions.

Contribution

It provides a one-loop effective action analysis of backreaction effects in SSR-enabled DBI inflation, a novel approach to understanding PBH formation.

Findings

Backreaction causes a relative correction of about 10^{-7} to the Hubble parameter.

The slow-roll parameter correction varies between -0.3 and 0.1.

The SSR peak in the curvature spectrum is slightly reduced, but PBH formation remains largely unaffected.

Abstract

We examine the backreaction effect of the enhanced small-scale scalar perturbations from the sound speed resonance (SSR) mechanism for primordial black hole formation in Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) inflation on background as well as curvature perturbation, which can generate a considerable amount of primordial black holes (PBH) in the radiation-dominated epoch. Within the perturbative regime, the backreaction effect of perturbations on the background dynamics can be described by an effective action after integrating out the perturbation sector. Starting with the effective field theory of a specific DBI inflation model that incorporates SSR, we obtain the one-loop effective action by integrating out the scalar perturbations at the quadratic level. Using the effective Friedmann equations derived from this one-loop effective action, we solve the Hubble parameter with backreaction and the effective perturbation dynamics on this background as well. Our numerical findings reveal that, for a viable parameter space, the backreaction effect results in a relative correction to the Hubble parameter of approximately $10^{-7}$, whereas the relative correction to the slow-roll parameter can vary between $-0.3$ and $0.1$, before gradually converging to $10^{-7}$. Furthermore, our results show that the backreaction effect on SSR sound speed causes a slight reduction in the resonant peak of the curvature power spectrum, and the subsequent PBH formation predicted by the SSR mechanism remains almost unchanged.