Black holes don't source fast Higgs vacuum decay
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2023-03-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We argue that the rate of Standard Model vacuum or thermal decay seeded by primordial black holes is negligible (because non-perturbatively suppressed by the small quartic Higgs coupling) and independent of the non-minimal coupling of the Higgs to gravity.
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@article{arxiv.2209.05504,
title = {Black holes don't source fast Higgs vacuum decay},
author = {Alessandro Strumia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.05504},
year = {2023}
}
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12 pages, 2 figures. Final version, to appear on JHEP. Webinar presentation: https://youtu.be/4DcTAYkx3BE