Reheating the universe after Higgs-inflation

by Juan Garcia Bellido (Univeristy of Geneva)

Friday 30 Oct 2009, 11:30 → 12:30 Europe/Zurich

Univ. de Geneve, Auditoire 234, 24 quai E. Ansermet, CH-1211 Genève 4

I will describe how the Universe reheats after a period of inflation in which the Standard Model Higgs plays the role of the inflaton. This is a complex process in which perturbative and non-perturbative effects are mixed, and backreaction of the decay products on the Higgs condensate also has to be taken into account.