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The Higgs boson as Inflaton

Speaker:

Abstract

The Higgs boson mass miraculously turns out to have a value which has been expected form vacuum stability up to the Planck scale. This opens the possibility that the Higgs boson not only provides masses to all SM particles, but very likely also supplied a huge dark energy which inflated the young universe just after the Big Bang. The Higgs boson looks to be a natural candidate for the inflaton. Higgs decays are reheating the universe after inflation. I emphasize the role of the hierarchy problem and the cosmological constant problem.

The Higgs boson as Inflaton

Venue

Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB (Find us on campus maps)
The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy
James Clerk Maxwell Building, 4305
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FD
UK