Spacetime curvature and the Higgs stability during and after inflation: Gravity to the rescue?

2015/09/16 by Tommi Markkanen, Markkanen, Tommi
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #astro-ph.CO #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1509.05072

4 pages, 1 table, 1 figure. To appear in the proceedings of the 27th Rencontres de Blois on Particle Physics and Cosmology, May 31 - June 05, 2015

arxiv created 2015/09/16 · arxiv updated 2015/09/21

Abstract

We investigate the stability of the electroweak vacuum during and after inflation by taking into account the effects of classical gravity in the quantum dynamics. In particular we show that the possible instability may be avoided without any beyond the Standard Model physics. Talk presented at the 27th Rencontres de Blois on Particle Physics and Cosmology.

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