On stability of electroweak vacuum during inflation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.05.012zbMATH Open1343.83058arXiv1503.02586OpenAlexW1858848216MaRDI QIDQ307491FDOQ307491

A. Shkerin, Sergey Sibiryakov

Publication date: 1 September 2016

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study Coleman-De Luccia tunneling of the Standard Model Higgs field during inflation in the case when the electroweak vacuum is metastable. We verify that the tunneling rate is exponentially suppressed. The main contribution to the suppression is the same as in flat space-time. We analytically estimate the corrections due to the expansion of the universe and an effective mass term in the Higgs potential that can be present at inflation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02586

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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