The Higgs field as an inflaton

By Fedor Bezrukov. 2013

169 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The Higgs field of the pure Standard Model can lead to the inflationary expansion of the early Universe if it is non-minimally coupled to gravity. The model predicts Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) parameters in perfect agreement with the current observations and has implications for the Higgs boson mass. We review the model, its predictions, problems arising with its quantization and some closely related models.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/507bac2f56090dc9dac6bf6a076db87f4d27781f

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. H. Kawai
2. S. Rasanen
3. J. Rubio
4. Yuta Hamada
5. S. Park
6. Kin-ya Oda
7. P. Wahlman
8. T. Buchert

In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. H. Kawai
2. S. Rasanen
3. J. Rubio
4. Yuta Hamada
5. S. Park
6. Kin-ya Oda
7. P. Wahlman

Citations in the corpus

• Higgs inflation from Standard Model criticality (2014, background): “The small value of λ6 would be understood as a tiny explicit breaking of asymptotic scale invariance in Jordan frame (shift symmetry in Einstein frame) [122].”
• Higgs Inflation (2018, methodology): “Overall, we intend to complement the existing monographs in the literature [99–101] by i) providing a further insight on the classical formulation of Higgs inflation and by ii) focusing on the uncertainties associated with the non-renormalizability of the theory and their impact on model building.”
• Higgs inflation with loop corrections in the Palatini formulation (2017, background): “Validity of the Standard Model to high scales also means that Higgs could possibly be the inflaton [8, 9].”