Unitarity and predictiveness in new Higgs inflation

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2018)038zbMATH Open1388.83913arXiv1711.08761MaRDI QIDQ1750893FDOQ1750893

Authors: Jacopo Fumagalli, Sander Mooij, Marieke Postma 

Publication date: 23 May 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In new Higgs inflation the Higgs kinetic terms are non-minimally coupled to the Einstein tensor, allowing the Higgs field to play the role of the inflaton. The new interaction is non-renormalizable, and the model only describes physics below some cutoff scale. Even if the unknown UV physics does not affect the tree level inflaton potential significantly, it may still enter at loop level and modify the running of the Standard Model (SM) parameters. This is analogous to what happens in the original model for Higgs inflation. A key difference, though, is that in new Higgs inflation the inflationary predictions are sensitive to this running. Thus the boundary conditions at the EW scale as well as the unknown UV completion may leave a signature on the inflationary parameters. However, this dependence can be evaded if the kinetic terms of the SM fermions and gauge fields are non-minimally coupled to gravity as well. Our approach to determine the model's UV dependence and the connection between low and high scale physics can be used in any particle physics model of inflation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08761

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupcosmology of theories beyond the SMeffective field theoriesHiggs physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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