Original paper
Electroweak stability and non-minimal coupling
Volume: 2017, Issue: 05, Pages: 004 - 004
Published: May 2, 2017
Abstract
The measured values of the Higgs and top quark mass indicate that the electroweak vacuum is metastable if there is no new physics below the Planck scale. This is at odds with a period of high scale inflation. A non-minimal coupling between the Higgs field and the Ricci scalar can stabilize the vacuum as it generates a large effective Higgs mass during inflation. We consider the effect of this coupling during preheating, when Higgs modes can be...
Paper Details
Title
Electroweak stability and non-minimal coupling
Published Date
May 2, 2017
Volume
2017
Issue
05
Pages
004 - 004