Speaker
Prof.
Sherwin Love
(Purdue University)
Description
A minimal candidate for dark matter is provided by a single standard model singlet.
The quantum mechanical effects of this singlet are explored in a model where the Higgs boson has a large non-minimal coupling to the Ricci scalar and plays the role of the inflaton. Imposition of the slow roll inflation cosmological constraints restricts the allowed values of the Higgs boson mass, its coupling to the dark matter and the dark matter self-coupling.
Primary author
Prof.
Sherwin Love
(Purdue University)
