Cosmological implications of Standard Model criticality and Higgs inflation

Abstract

The observed Higgs mass indicates that the Standard Model can be valid up to near the Planck scale $M_{\text{P}}$. Within this framework, it is important to examine how little modification is necessary to fit the recent experimental results in particle physics and cosmology. As a minimal extension, we consider the possibility that the Higgs field plays the role of inflaton and that the dark matter is the Higgs-portal scalar field. We assume that the extended Standard Model is valid up to the string scale $10^{17}\text{GeV}$. (This translates to the assumption that all the non-minimal couplings are not particularly large, $\xi \lesssim 10^2$, as in the critical Higgs inflation, since $M_{\text{P}}/\sqrt{10^2}\sim 10^{17}\text{GeV}$.) We find a correlated theoretical bound on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ and the dark matter mass $m_{\text{DM}}$. As a result, the Planck bound $r<0.09$ implies that the dark-matter mass must be smaller than 1.1\,TeV, while the PandaX-II bound on the dark-matter mass $m_{\text{DM}}>0.7\pm 0.2\text{TeV}$ leads to $r\gtrsim 2\times 10^{-3}$. Both are within the range of near-future detection. When we include the right-handed neutrinos of mass $M_{\text{R}}\sim 10^{14}$\,GeV, the allowed region becomes wider, but we still predict $r\gtrsim 10^{-3}$ in the most of the parameter space. The most conservative bound becomes $r>10^{-5}$ if we allow three-parameter tuning of $m_{\text{DM}}$, $M_{\text{R}}$, and the top-quark mass.

Title, Abstract, and Introduction rewritten; references added; some other minor modifications; 31 pages, 12 figures; Published version in Nuclear Physics B

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