Probable or Improbable Universe? Correlating Electroweak Vacuum Instability with the Scale of Inflation

Anson Hook, John Kearney, Bibhushan Shakya +1

Measurements of the Higgs boson and top quark masses indicate that the Standard Model Higgs potential becomes unstable around ${\Lambda }_I\sim 10^{11}$ GeV. This instability is cosmologic…