The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton

Preprint

9 January 2008

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0710.3755

Abstract

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.

Keywords

STANDARD MODEL
MODEL HIGGS
HIGGS BOSON
INFLATION
PARTICLE
INFLATON
GRAVITY

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