Higgs Starobinsky inflation

2016/05/01 by Xavier Calmet, Iberê Kuntz · 104 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Boson #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Higgs boson #Higgs field #Inflation (cosmology) #Mathematical physics #Metastability #Minimal coupling #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum #Quantum mechanics #Theoretical physics #Universe #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4136-3

published in The European Physical Journal C 76(5) (Springer Science+Business Media)

openalex publication_date 2016/05/01 · arxiv created 2016/05/07 · arxiv updated 2016/06/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

In this paper we point out that Starobinsky inflation could be induced by quantum effects due to a large non-minimal coupling of the Higgs boson to the Ricci scalar. The Higgs Starobinsky mechanism provides a solution to issues attached to large Higgs field values in the early universe which in a metastable universe would not be a viable option. We verify explicitly that these large quantum corrections do not destabilize Starobinsky’s potential.

Citations

• Classical and quantum initial conditions for Higgs inflation
• TWO-LOOP APPROACH TO THE EFFECTIVE ACTION IN QUANTUM GRAVITY
• Quantum Fields in Curved Space
• The Higgs vacuum is unstable
• The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton
• Higgs mass and vacuum stability in the Standard Model at NNLO

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