New Model of Inflation with Non-minimal Derivative Coupling of Standard Model Higgs Boson to Gravity

Mar, 2010
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 011302
e-Print:
Report number:
  • LMU-ASC-10-10

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Abstract: (arXiv)
In this letter we show that there is a unique non-minimal derivative coupling of the Standard Model Higgs boson to gravity such that: it propagates no more degrees of freedom than General Relativity sourced by a scalar field, reproduces a successful inflating background within the Standard Model Higgs parameters and, finally, does not suffer from dangerous quantum corrections.
Note:
  • v2: 5 pages, comment on the running of the Higgs self coupling added, reference added, title changed to match standards of PRL; version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. (2010)
  • 04.50.Kd
  • 14.80.Bn
  • 98.80.Cq
  • coupling: derivative
  • correction: quantum
  • field theory: scalar
  • general relativity
  • Higgs particle: coupling
  • gravitation
  • inflation
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