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Cosmology with a TeV mass GUT Higgs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-01 v1 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The most natural way to break the GUT gauge symmetry is with a Higgs field whose vacuum expectation value is of order 1016\mboxGeV10^{16}\,\mbox{GeV} but whose mass is of order 10210^2 to 103\mboxGeV10^3\,\mbox{GeV}. This can lead to a cosmological history radically different from what is usually assumed to have occurred between the standard inflationary and nucleosynthesis epochs, which may solve the gravitino and Polonyi/moduli problems in a natural way.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9502417,
  title  = {Cosmology with a TeV mass GUT Higgs},
  author = {David H. Lyth and Ewan D. Stewart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9502417},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages, revtex

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