12–16 Sept 2016
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
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Originating the hot Big Bang from the Standard Model Higgs

13 Sept 2016, 14:00
20m
6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin (CERN)

6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin

CERN

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Oral Contributions Cosmology & Gravitational Waves Cosmology & Gravitational Waves

Speaker

Daniel G. Figueroa (CERN)

Description

Under general circumstances, the Standard Model Higgs is excited in the form of a condensate during or towards the end of inflation. The Higgs condensate is then forced to decay afterwards — due to non-perturbative effects — into the rest of the SM species. I will present the cosmological implications of this primordial decay, quantifying the necessary conditions to achieve a successful mechanism for 'reheating’ the Universe into the SM. If there is enough time, I will also discuss the implications for primordial gravitational waves.

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