Primordial Black-Hole Dark Matter from Warm Natural Inflation*

We describe a study of the natural warm inflationary paradigm (WNI). We show two important new results arise in this model. One is that the observational constraints on the primordial power spectrum from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be satisfied without going beyond the Planck scale of the effective field theory. The second is that WNI can inevitably provide perfect conditions for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the golden window of black-hole mass range (10⁻¹⁶ − 10⁻¹¹M_Sol) where it can account for all of the the dark matter content of the universe while satisfying observational constraints.