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Cosmological implications of the Higgs mass measurement
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We assume the validity of the standard model up to an arbitrary high-energy scale and discuss what information on the early stages of the Universe can be extracted from a measurement of the Higgs mass. For , the Higgs potential can develop an instability at large-field values. From the absence of excessive thermal Higgs field fluctuations we derive a bound on the reheat temperature after inflation as a function of the Higgs and top masses. Then we discuss the interplay between the quantum Higgs fluctuations generated during the primordial stage of inflation and the cosmological perturbations, in the context of landscape scenarios in which the inflationary parameters scan. We show that, within the large-field models of inflation, it is highly improbable to obtain the observed cosmological perturbations in a Universe with a light Higgs. Moreover, independently of the inflationary model, the detection of primordial tensor perturbations through the B mode of CMB polarization and the discovery of a light Higgs can simultaneously occur only with exponentially small probability, unless there is new physics beyond the standard model.
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“For the observed values of the SM parameters, the latter effect is dominant and thermal corrections do not destabilise the electroweak vacuum, even when the reheating temperature is close to the Planck scale [14].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Espinosa, J. R., Giudice, G. F., & Riotto, A.
- Affiliations
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CH)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova (IT)
- ORCID
- Riotto, A
- Venue
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2008-05-06
- Volume
- 2008
- Issue
- 05
- Pages
- 002
- ISSN
- 1475-7508 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-7516
- OpenAlex
- W2029441706
- Cited by
- 342
- References
- 70
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- FWCI
- 4.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- CERN
- Comunidad de Madrid (P-ESP-00346)
- European Commission (MRTN-CT-2004-503369, MRTN-CT-2006-035863)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
- Keywords
- Higgs boson mass, early universe, reheating temperature, inflation (cosmology), cosmological perturbations, landscape scenarios, large-field inflation, primordial tensor perturbations, CMB B-modes, top quark mass, beyond the Standard Model
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