2019/07/31 by Po-Wen Chang, Cheng-Wei Chiang, Kin-Wang Ng · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep04(2020)163
published as JHEP 2004 (2020) 163 · 24 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, expanded discussion on RG evolution and thermal equilibrium condition, references added, matches published version
arxiv created 2020/04/29 · arxiv updated 2020/05/04
It is known that the Higgs potential in the Standard Model can drive a successful inflation as long as the Higgs field couples non-minimally to gravity. It is then inevitable to take into account the loop corrections of the Standard Model particles to the Higgs potential in the Higgs inflation. In this paper, we discuss the one-loop corrections at finite temperature to the curvature perturbation generated during the Higgs inflation. We find that the thermal loop effects can suppress the power of the curvature perturbation at large scales, thus resulting in a low quadrupole of the temperature anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background.