2017/10/31 by J. R. Espinosa, Davide Racco, D. Racco +2 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Binary black hole #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark energy #Dark fluid #Dark matter #Gravitational wave #Higgs boson #Hot dark matter #Inflation (cosmology) #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Primordial black hole #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #Theoretical physics #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.120.121301
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 121301 (2018) · 6+1 pages, 3 figures; v2: updated to the published PRL version, and added an Appendix about Non-Gaussian effects
openalex publication_date 2018/03/23 · arxiv created 2018/04/20 · arxiv updated 2018/04/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
For the current central values of the Higgs boson and top quark masses, the standard model Higgs potential develops an instability at a scale of the order of 1011 GeV. We show that a cosmological signature of such instability could be dark matter in the form of primordial black holes seeded by Higgs fluctuations during inflation. The existence of dark matter might not require physics beyond the standard model.