The Higgs boson, naturalness, and the Universe

Abstract

The Higgs boson -- the only known fundamental scalar particle -- may have profound implications for both particle physics and cosmology. This review examines how the Higgs field may have influenced the Universe from its earliest moments to its present state. We first discuss particle-physics puzzles, including the naturalness and hierarchy problems, as well as the possible metastability of the electroweak vacuum. We then turn to cosmological scenarios where the Higgs boson could be a driving force, including Higgs inflation, reheating and the onset of the hot Big Bang, the electroweak phase transition, and baryogenesis via electroweak processes.

arXiv comment38 pages, 4 figures. Invited topical review, published in Reports on Progress in Physics

References in corpus (134)

• Evidence for oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos
• Particle Dark Matter: Evidence, Candidates and Constraints
• Cosmology and the Fate of Dilatation Symmetry
• The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton
• Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter
• Higgs mass and vacuum stability in the Standard Model at NNLO
• DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
• Encyclopaedia Inflationaris
• Investigating the near-criticality of the Higgs boson
• The $\nu$MSM, Dark Matter and Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe
• Constraining Warm Dark Matter candidates including sterile neutrinos and light gravitinos with WMAP and the Lyman-alpha forest
• Progress in Electroweak Baryogenesis
• The $\nu$MSM, Dark Matter and Neutrino Masses
• Electroweak baryogenesis
• Warm Dark Matter as a solution to the small scale crisis: new constraints from high redshift Lyman-alpha forest data
• A New Dark Matter Candidate: Non-thermal Sterile Neutrinos
• Is There a Hot Electroweak Phase Transition at $m_H\gsim m_W$?
• A facility to Search for Hidden Particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case
• Detecting gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions with LISA: an update
• Superconformal Inflationary $\alpha$-Attractors
• The origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry
• Recent Progress in Baryogenesis
• The role of sterile neutrinos in cosmology and astrophysics
• Higgs inflation: consistency and generalisations
• Baryogenesis via neutrino oscillations
• Higgs boson mass and new physics
• Sterile Neutrino Hot, Warm, and Cold Dark Matter
• The Electroweak Phase Transition: A Non-Perturbative Analysis
• Electroweak Baryogenesis
• Electroweak Baryon Number Non-Conservation in the Early Universe and in High Energy Collisions
• The stochastic gravitational wave background from turbulence and magnetic fields generated by a first-order phase transition
• Generic Rules for High Temperature Dimensional Reduction and Their Application to the Standard Model
• On the Naturalness of Higgs Inflation
• Electroweak Baryogenesis and Standard Model CP Violation
• Lyman-alpha constraints on warm and on warm-plus-cold dark matter models
• The Sphaleron Rate in the Minimal Standard Model
• Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter
• Standard Model CP-violation and Baryon asymmetry Part II: Finite Temperature
• Asymptotic safety of gravity and the Higgs boson mass
• On initial conditions for the Hot Big Bang
• Sterile neutrinos: the dark side of the light fermions
• Preheating in the Standard Model with the Higgs-Inflaton coupled to gravity
• Comment on Higgs Inflation and Naturalness
• Dark Matter, Baryogenesis and Neutrino Oscillations from Right Handed Neutrinos
• Milky Way Satellite Census. III. Constraints on Dark Matter Properties from Observations of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies
• How to find neutral leptons of the nuMSM?
• Direct Detection of Warm Dark Matter in the X-ray
• Improved Higgs Mass Stability Bound in the Standard Model and Implications for Supersymmetry
• 3D Physics and the Electroweak Phase Transition: Perturbation Theory
• Primordial Spectral Indices from Generalized Einstein Theories
• Inflation with Non-Minimal Coupling: Metric vs. Palatini Formulations
• The universality class of the electroweak theory
• A possible symmetry of the $\nu$MSM
• Stability of the Electroweak Vacuum: Gauge Independence and Advanced Precision
• DESI 2024 III: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars
• Quantum scale invariance, cosmological constant and hierarchy problem
• Sterile Neutrinos as the Origin of Dark and Baryonic Matter
• The nuMSM, leptonic asymmetries, and properties of singlet fermions
• Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe in the Standard Model
• Standard Model stability bounds for new physics within LHC reach
• The Standard Model cross-over on the lattice
• A review of Axion Inflation in the era of Planck
• Living beyond the edge: Higgs inflation and vacuum metastability
• Unitarizing Higgs Inflation
• Do experiments suggest a hierarchy problem?
• Higgs-Palatini Inflation and Unitarity
• The Present and Future Status of Heavy Neutral Leptons
• Simulating the Electroweak Phase Transition in the SU(2) Higgs Model
• Higgs inflation with loop corrections in the Palatini formulation
• Why should we care about the top quark Yukawa coupling?
• Naturally Speaking: The Naturalness Criterion and Physics at the LHC
• Violent Preheating in Inflation with Nonminimal Coupling
• Scale Invariant Instantons and the Complete Lifetime of the Standard Model
• Euclidean wormholes, baby universes, and their impact on particle physics and cosmology
• Progress on Cosmological Magnetic Fields
• A modified naturalness principle and its experimental tests
• Joint constraints on thermal relic dark matter from strong gravitational lensing, the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest, and Milky Way satellites
• Testable Baryogenesis in Seesaw Models
• Consistent Use of Effective Potentials
• Preheating after Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings, I: Covariant Formalism and Attractor Behavior
• On the robustness of the primordial power spectrum in renormalized Higgs inflation
• Preheating after Higgs Inflation: Self-Resonance and Gauge boson production
• How to constrain warm dark matter with the Lyman $\alpha$ forest
• Quantum mechanics of 4-derivative theories
• The masses of active neutrinos in the nuMSM from X-ray astronomy
• Preheating after multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings, III: Dynamical spacetime results
• Bounds on the Nonminimal Coupling of the Higgs Boson to Gravity
• Higgs inflation with the Holst and the Nieh-Yan term
• Lattice study of an electroweak phase transition at m_h ~ 126 GeV
• Quantum Effects in Palatini Higgs Inflation
• The Lyman-$\alpha$ forest as a diagnostic of the nature of the dark matter
• Preheating after multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings, II: Resonance Structure
• Low-scale leptogenesis with three heavy neutrinos
• Is there a new physics between electroweak and Planck scales?
• Manifestly scale-invariant regularization and quantum effective operators
• Uniting low-scale leptogeneses
• Mapping the viable parameter space for testable leptogenesis
• Why is there more matter than antimatter? Calculational methods for leptogenesis and electroweak baryogenesis
• Numerical Simulations and the Strength of the Electroweak Phase Transition
• Inertial Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Quantum Scale Invariance
• Higgs inflation in Einstein-Cartan gravity
• Standard Model Meets Gravity: Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Inflation
• Two-loop scale-invariant scalar potential and quantum effective operators
• Einstein-Cartan Portal to Dark Matter
• Matter matters in Einstein-Cartan gravity
• Sterile neutrino dark matter via coinciding resonances
• Standard Model with spontaneously broken quantum scale invariance
• Gravity, Scale Invariance and the Hierarchy Problem
• Impact of Gravity on Vacuum Stability
• Conformal symmetry: towards the link between the Fermi and the Planck scales
• Bounds on right-handed neutrino parameters from observable leptogenesis
• Naturalness after LHC8
• Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report: Volume 1, Physics, Experiments, Detectors
• Impact of New Physics on the EW vacuum stability in a curved spacetime background
• Quantum implications of a scale invariant regularisation
• Direct Higgs-gravity interaction and stability of our Universe
• Baryogenesis and helical magnetogenesis from the electroweak transition of the minimal Standard Model
• Making sense of ghosts
• Baryogenesis from sphaleron decoupling
• QFT without infinities and hierarchy problem
• Dark Matter
• Bubble Trouble: a Review on Electroweak Baryogenesis
• Finite Callan-Symanzik renormalisation for multiple scalar fields
• On the collider-testability of the type-I seesaw model with 3 right-handed neutrinos
• Complex Spinors and Unified Theories
• Return of the Lepton Number: Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Production and the Revival of the Shi-Fuller Mechanism
• Effective Potential in Finite Formulation of QFT
• Z Condensation and Standard Model Baryogenesis
• Constraints on the properties of $\nu$MSM dark matter using the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way
• Non-renormalizable theories and finite formulation of QFT
• Standard Model Baryon Number Violation at Zero Temperature from Higgs Bubble Collisions
• A non-compact QCD axion
• Probing beyond the Standard Model with gravitational waves from phase transitions
• Progress in Einstein-Cartan gravity