The Selfish Higgs
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-04-27 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We propose a mechanism to solve the Higgs naturalness problem through a cosmological selection process. The discharging of excited field configurations through membrane nucleation leads to discrete jumps of the cosmological constant and the Higgs mass, which vary in a correlated way. The resulting multitude of universes are all empty, except for those in which the cosmological constant and the Higgs mass are both nearly vanishing. Only under these critical conditions can inflation be activated and create a non-empty universe.
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@article{arxiv.1907.05370,
title = {The Selfish Higgs},
author = {G. F. Giudice and A. Kehagias and A. Riotto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.05370},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
17 pages, 1 figure (one reference added in revised version)