Higgs inflation from standard model criticality

Title Topological Higgs inflation: Origin of Standard Model criticality

Standard Model Higgs boson mass from inflation

We analyse one-loop radiative corrections to the inflationary potential in the theory, where inflation is driven by the Standard Model Higgs field. We show that inflation is possible provided the Higgs mass mH lies in the interval mmin < mH < mmax, where mmin = [136.7 + (mt − 171.2) × 1.95] GeV, mmax = [184.5 + (mt − 171.2) × 0.5] GeV and mt is the mass of the top quark. Moreover, the predictio...

Standard Model Higgs boson mass from inflation: two loop analysis

We extend the analysis of [1] of the Standard Model Higgs inflation accounting for two-loop radiative corrections to the effective potential. As was expected, higher loop effects result in some modification of the interval for allowed Higgs masses mmin < mH < mmax, which somewhat exceeds the region in which the Standard Model can be considered as a viable effective field theory all the way up t...

A gravitational wave background from the decay of the standard model Higgs after inflation

The stability of the Standard Model (SM) at high energies implies that the SM Higgs forms a condensate during inflation, which starts oscillating soon after the inflationary stage ends. This causes the Higgs to decay very fast, via non-perturbative effects, into all the SM fields coupled directly to it. The excited species act as a source of gravitational waves (GWs), and as a result, all Yukaw...

Standard Model Higgs Searches

The status and perspectives of Standard Model Higgs searches are discussed.