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Key research themes
1. How does the stability of the Standard Model Higgs potential affect cosmological inflation dynamics and vacuum stability constraints during Higgs inflation?
This research theme investigates the impact of the Standard Model Higgs potential's near-critical or metastable behavior on inflationary physics, vacuum decay risks during inflation, and constraints on inflationary parameters. It addresses how the Higgs vacuum metastability influences the evolution of the Higgs field through inflation, reheating, and the present epoch, including bounds on the Hubble scale during inflation, and whether Higgs inflation is observationally consistent given these constraints.
Key finding: The SM Higgs potential becomes unstable at large field values around 10^10-10^11 GeV, threatening vacuum stability during inflation. The study uses a stochastic Langevin approach to Higgs fluctuations in an inflationary de... Read more
Key finding: Using two-loop Renormalization Group analysis coupled with cosmological data (CMB, BAO, and SNe), this work finds tension (about 8σ) between parameters for Higgs inflation consistent with cosmology and the electroweak-scale... Read more
Key finding: This paper investigates the detailed cosmological predictions of Higgs inflation near the critical point where the effective Higgs self-coupling λ is small and nearly zero around 10^17-10^18 GeV. It demonstrates that... Read more
Key finding: Integrating a complex scalar field carrying lepton number into Higgs inflation can simultaneously ensure SM Higgs vacuum stability up to the Planck scale, successful inflation, and non-thermal leptogenesis. The scalar lepton... Read more
2. What are the ultraviolet (UV) completeness challenges and possible resolutions in Higgs inflation models with large nonminimal gravitational couplings?
This theme focuses on the theoretical challenges of Higgs inflation arising from large nonminimal couplings (ξ) between the Higgs field and gravity, which induce tree-level unitarity violation well below the Planck scale. Researchers investigate the UV cutoff issue, explore modifications like adding higher derivative gravity terms (e.g., R^2 term), alternative gravitational formalisms (metric vs. Palatini), and nonminimal derivative couplings to achieve UV completion, raise the cutoff scale, and restore perturbative unitarity up to the Planck scale, thus ensuring the consistency of Higgs inflation at high energies.
Key finding: In Palatini formalism, Higgs inflation predicts an extremely suppressed tensor-to-scalar ratio r ~ 10^-12, making observational verification implausible. By extending the action to include a non-minimal derivative coupling... Read more
Key finding: Adding a single R^2 term to the gravity sector alongside the Higgs field in Higgs inflation significantly elevates the strong coupling scale from M_P/(ξ) to the Planck scale itself, solving the unitarity cutoff problem. This... Read more
Key finding: Through explicit computation of tree-level 4-point scattering amplitudes in a large inflaton background, this work finds all amplitudes remain well behaved and perturbatively unitary up to the Planck scale across metric and... Read more
Key finding: The paper clarifies that the differences in renormalization scale prescriptions (frame choices) in Higgs inflation arise because of distinct counterterms used to cancel logarithmic divergences, rather than from the choice of... Read more
3. How does the Higgs field influence reheating dynamics and generate density perturbations or inhomogeneities in the Universe post-inflation?
This research theme examines the role of the Standard Model Higgs boson as a spectator or active component during and after inflation, modulating inflaton decay rates via its varying vacuum expectation value (VEV) induced by quantum fluctuations. The effects include delayed reheating due to large Higgs-induced masses for SM particles, generation of large density perturbations from variable reheating temperature, modulation of preheating efficiency, and implications for baryogenesis and dark matter isocurvature perturbations. These effects impact observable temperature fluctuations and reheating temperature distributions across Hubble patches.
Key finding: Demonstrates that quantum fluctuations during inflation induce a stochastic Higgs VEV varying among Hubble patches, which gives varying effective masses to SM particles coupled to the Higgs. This spatially modulated mass... Read more
Key finding: Shows that due to the Higgs acquiring a condensate during inflation, coupled SM particles obtain large masses during reheating, temporarily blocking the decay of the inflaton and delaying reheating. This leads to a... Read more
Key finding: Analyzes initial conditions needed for Higgs inflation, finding classically no fine tuning is required for successful inflation assuming initial homogeneity; however, quantum corrections induce a new scalar degree of freedom... Read more