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Self-healing of unitarity in Higgs inflation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-17 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We reconsider perturbative unitarity violation in the standard model Higgs inflation model. We show that the Cutkosky cutting rule implied by perturbative unitarity is fulfilled at one-loop. This is a strong indication that unitarity is restored order by order in perturbation theory. We then resum certain one-loop diagrams and show that the relevant dressed amplitude fulfills the Cutkosky rule exactly. This is an example of the self-healing mechanism. The original Higgs inflation model is thus consistent and does not require any new physics beyond the standard model at least up to the Planck scale.

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@article{arxiv.1310.7410,
  title  = {Self-healing of unitarity in Higgs inflation},
  author = {Xavier Calmet and Roberto Casadio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7410},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages