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20102012
most citedBounds on the Nonminimal Coupling of the Higgs Boson to Gravity

80 citations · 266 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

hep-ph2012★ 80 cited

Bounds on the Nonminimal Coupling of the Higgs Boson to Gravity

Michael Atkins, Xavier Calmet

We derive the first bound on the value of the Higgs boson non-minimal coupling to the Ricci scalar. We show that the recent discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collide…

hep-ph2011★ 12 cited

Brane World Models Need Low String Scale

Ignatios Antoniadis, Michael Atkins, Xavier Calmet

Models with large extra dimensions offer the possibility of the Planck scale being of order the electroweak scale, thus alleviating the gauge hierarchy problem. We show that these…

hep-ph2010★ 75 cited

Remarks on Higgs Inflation

Michael Atkins, Xavier Calmet

We discuss models where the Higgs boson of the electroweak standard model plays the role of the inflaton. We focus on the question of the violation of perturbative unitarity due to…

hep-ph2010★ 36 cited

Unitarity bounds on low scale quantum gravity

Michael Atkins, Xavier Calmet

We study the unitarity of models with low scale quantum gravity both in four dimensions and in models with a large extra-dimensional volume. We find that models with low scale quan…

hep-th2010★ 41 cited

On the unitarity of linearized General Relativity coupled to matter

Michael Atkins, Xavier Calmet

We consider the unitarity of the S-matrix for linearized General Relativity coupled to particle physics models. Taking renormalization group effects of the Planck mass into account…

hep-ph2010★ 22 cited

Suppressing Lepton Flavour Violation in a Soft-Wall Extra Dimension

Michael Atkins, Stephan J. Huber

A soft-wall warped extra dimension allows one to relax the tight constraints imposed by electroweak data in conventional Randall-Sundrum models. We investigate a setup, where the l…