Speaker
Dr
Daniel G. Figueroa
(CERN)
Description
I will present the cosmological implications of the decay of the Standard Model Higgs after Inflation, when assuming a post-inflationary/pre-BBN expansion history driven by a stiff source with equation of state w > 1/3. In particular, I will discuss first the realisation of a successful 'reheating' mechanism, and secondly, the production of a large background of gravitational waves by the Higgs decay products.
Primary author
Dr
Daniel G. Figueroa
(CERN)
