Electroweak vacuum metastability and low-scale inflation

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Published 14 December 2017 © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab
, , Citation Yohei Ema et al JCAP12(2017)030 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/12/030

1475-7516/2017/12/030

Abstract

We study the stability of the electroweak vacuum in low-scale inflation models whose Hubble parameter is much smaller than the instability scale of the Higgs potential. In general, couplings between the inflaton and Higgs are present, and hence we study effects of these couplings during and after inflation. We derive constraints on the couplings between the inflaton and Higgs by requiring that they do not lead to catastrophic electroweak vacuum decay, in particular, via resonant production of the Higgs particles.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2017/12/030