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hep-th2007★ 2.1k cited

The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton

F. L. Bezrukov, M. E. Shaposhnikov

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 no…

hep-th2007★ 66 cited

Is there a new physics between electroweak and Planck scales?

Mikhail Shaposhnikov

We argue that there may be no intermediate particle physics energy scale between the Planck mass GeV and the electroweak scale GeV. At the same…

hep-th2007★ 27 cited

Anomalous Abelian solitons

Matthias Schmid, Mikhail Shaposhnikov

The chiral Abelian Higgs model contains an interesting class of solitons found by Rubakov and Tavkhelidze. These objects carry non-zero fermion number (or Chern-Simons number…