On electroweak metastability and Higgs inflation
arXiv:2412.03284 · doi:10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.18.028
Abstract
For the central values of the relevant experimental inputs, that is the strong coupling constant and the top quark and Higgs masses, the effective Higgs potential displays two minima, one at the electroweak scale and a deeper one at high energies. We review the phenomenology of the Higgs inflation model, extending the Standard Model to include a non-minimal coupling to gravity; as recently shown [1], even configurations that would be metastable in the Standard Model, become viable for inflation if the non-minimal coupling is large enough to flatten the Higgs potential at field values below the barrier between the minima.
Talk at the 17th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (Top2024), 22-27 September 2024; v1: 5 pages, 3 figures; v2: citations added, 6 pages, 3 figures
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