The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton

By Fedor Bezrukov, M. Shaposhnikov. 2007

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We argue that the Higgs boson of the Standard Model can lead to inflation and produce cosmological perturbations in accordance with observations. An essential requirement is the non-minimal coupling of the Higgs scalar field to gravity; no new particle besides already present in the electroweak theory is required.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan (2019, background): “Some particular realizations of physical models in the plateau class are also shown: the Starobinsky model [7] and Higgs inflation [8] (small and large orange filled circles, respectively) and fibre inflation [9] (purple line).”
Stabilization of the electroweak vacuum by a scalar threshold effect (2012, background): “In the original proposal for SM Higgs inflation [46], a large non-minimal coupling ξ ∼ 104 of the Higgs boson to gravity, ξH†HR, drives inflation at large Higgs field values.”
Higgs mass and vacuum stability in the Standard Model at NNLO (2012, background): “One scenario for Higgs inflation [50] exploits a large non-minimal coupling between the Higgs bilinear and the Ricci scalar R, with an interaction Lagrangian ξ|H|2R.”
Standard Model Higgs boson mass from inflation: Two loop analysis (2009, neutral): “Keywords: Inflation, Higgs boson, Standard Model, Variable Planck mass, Non-minimal coupling.”
On inflation with non-minimal coupling (2010, background): “Various attempts have been made at addressing whether quantum corrections spoil the validity of these non-minimal models of inflation due to the ξφ2R term; see [6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28].”
The Phenomenology of Right Handed Neutrinos (2013, neutral): “Various aspects of this model have been studied in the past by different authors [119, 132, 133, 147, 148, 151, 203, 250, 253, 266, 422, 424, 468, 497, 498, 524, 540, 544, 552, 553, 555, 571, 572, 574–588], see [203, 251, 589] for a detailed introduction and review.”
The Quest for B Modes from Inflationary Gravitational Waves (2015, positive): “Inflation” model (Bezrukov & Shaposhnikov 2008).”
Beginning inflation in an inhomogeneous universe (2015, background): “That question is beyond the scope of this work and we do not address it here, though we refer the reader to [11, 31–33] and references therein which discuss how cosmological attractor configurations with the desired properties,”