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The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton

Name: The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton
Start: 2007-12-12T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2007-12-12T12:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

by Prof. Misha Shaposhnikov

Wednesday 12 Dec 2007, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

1/1-025 (CERN)

1/1-025

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Description

We argue that the Higgs boson of the Standard Model can lead to inflation and produce cosmological perturbations in accordance with cosmological 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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Geraldine Servant