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Cosmological Higgs fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We present a time-dependent solution to the coupled Einstein-Higgs equations for general Higgs-type potentials in the context of flat FRW cosmological models. Possible implications are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0207102,
  title  = {Cosmological Higgs fields},
  author = {J. W. van Holten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0207102},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, no figures. Version to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett. Changes: references and citations added; introduction partly modified; expanded discussion of relations between parameters in the Higgs potential