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Bounds on the Nonminimal Coupling of the Higgs Boson to Gravity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We derive the first bound on the value of the Higgs boson non-minimal coupling to the Ricci scalar. We show that the recent discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN implies that the non-minimal coupling is smaller than 2.6×10152.6\times 10^{15}.

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@article{arxiv.1211.0281,
  title  = {Bounds on the Nonminimal Coupling of the Higgs Boson to Gravity},
  author = {Michael Atkins and Xavier Calmet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0281},
  year   = {2013}
}

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7 pages