articlePhysics Letters BDec 5, 2007HYBRID OA

The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton

FBFedor BezrukovMSMikhail Shaposhnikov

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · Institute for Nuclear Research

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Abstract

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 non-minimal coupling of the Higgs scalar field to gravity; no new particle besides already present in the electroweak theory is required.

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  • Inflaton
  • Higgs boson
  • Electroweak interaction
  • Particle physics
  • Physics
  • Higgs field
  • Technicolor
  • Standard Model (mathematical formulation)
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