Higgs vacuum (in)stability during inflation. The dangerous relevance of De Sitter departure and Planck-suppressed operators

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2020)142zbMath1435.85010arXiv1910.13430OpenAlexW3099003324MaRDI QIDQ2188643

John W. Ronayne, Jacopo Fumagalli, Sébastien Renaux-Petel

Publication date: 11 June 2020

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13430

zbMATH Keywords

stochastic processesHiggs physicseffective field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73)

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