Higgs Cosmology and Dark Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2018-09-05 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
Higgs vacuum stability has important consequences for cosmology. In particular, we argue that if the Higgs vacuum is metastable, then the dark matter cannot contain a single black hole of mass less than in our entire past light cone. In addition to being the destroyer microscopic black holes, it may be possible that Higgs vacuum decay is a source of primordial black holes during inflation.
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@article{arxiv.1809.00131,
title = {Higgs Cosmology and Dark Matter},
author = {Ian G. Moss and Ruth Gregory},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.00131},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures. Talk presented at 2nd World Summit: Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe, June 2018, University of Antilles, Guadeloupe