Primordial Black Hole Formation in a Double Inflation Model in Supergravity

It has been recently pointed out that the initial value problem in new inflation models is naturally solved by supergravity effects if there exists a pre-inflation before the new inflation. We study this double inflation model in details and find that density fluctuations on small cosmological scales are much larger than those on large scales due to peculiar property of the new inflation. We show that this results in production of primordial black holes which have $\sim 1 M_{\odot}$ masses in a certain parameter region of the double inflation model. We stress that these black holes may be identified with MACHOs observed in the halo of our galaxy.Comment: 19 pages (RevTeX file), KUNS-147

A Search for Massive Compact Halo Objects in Our Galaxy

MAssive Compact Halo Objects such as brown dwarfs, Jupiters, and black holes are prime candidates to comprise the dark halo of our galaxy. Paczynski noted that these objects (dubbed MACHOs) can be detected via gravitational microlensing of stars in the Magellanic Clouds with the caveat that only about one in 10{sup 6} stars will be lensed at any given time. Our group is currently involved in constructing a dedicated observing system at the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Australia. We will use a refurbished 1.27 meter telescope and an innovative two-color CCD camera with 3.4 {times} 10{sup 7} pixels to monitor 10{sup 6} {minus} 10{sup 7} stars in the Magellanic Clouds. During the first year of operation (1991--1992), we hope to detect (or rule out) objects in the mass range 0.001M{sub {circle dot}} {le} M {le} 0.1M{sub {circle dot}}, and after five years, we hope to have covered the range 10{sup {minus}6}M{sub {circle dot}} < M {approx lt} 100M{sub {circle dot}}. 4 refs