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The possibility of having an inflationary epoch within a noncommutative geometry approach to unifying gravity and the standard model is demonstrated. This inflationary phase occurs without the need to introduce "ad hoc" additional fields or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-26 William Nelson , Mairi Sakellariadou

We consider chaotic inflation models with a pseudo-scalar field containing the general couplings to the four-form flux. The four-form mixing with the pseudo-scalar field induces a quadratic potential for inflaton while the coexisting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-26 Hyun Min Lee

The dynamics of both the preinflationary and the preheating epochs for a model consisting of a Higgs inflaton plus an additional auxiliary field are studied in full General Relativity. The minimally coupled auxiliary field allows for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Cristian Joana

In scalaron-Higgs inflation the Standard Model Higgs boson is non-minimally coupled to gravity and the Einstein-Hilbert action is supplemented by the quadratic scalar curvature invariant. For the quartic Higgs self-coupling $\lambda$ fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-12 Anirudh Gundhi , Christian F. Steinwachs

We introduce a new method that allows for the Higgs to be the inflaton. That is, we let the Higgs be a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone (pNG) boson of a global coset symmetry $G/H$ that spontaneously breaks at an energy scale $\sim 4\pi f$ and give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-28 Stephon Alexander , Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski , Humberto Gilmer , Katherine Freese

We derive a Higgs inflationary model in the context of holographic cosmology, where we consider a universe filled with a Higgs field non-minimally coupled to gravity in a slow-roll regime. The amplitude of density (scalar) perturbations is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-28 Aatifa Bargach , Farida Bargach , Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Taoufik Ouali

It is likely that the Higgs potential of the Standard Model is unstable, turning negative at $\phi < \Lambda \sim 10^{10}$ GeV. Here we consider whether it is possible to have Higgs Inflation on the positive stable region of the potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-14 John McDonald

We consider the most general effective action for the four-form fluxes in the Standard Model coupled to gravity. The Higgs mass parameter can be relaxed to a correct value due to the four-form coupling to the Higgs field and it stops…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Hyun Min Lee

We investigate multi-field signatures of the nonminimally coupled supersymmetric Higgs inflation-type cosmological scenario, focusing on the two-field Higgs-lepton inflation model as a concrete example. This type of inflationary model is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-21 Shinsuke Kawai , Jinsu Kim

Inflation based on scalar fields which are non-minimally coupled to gravity has been proposed as a way to unify inflation with weak-scale physics, with the inflaton being identified with the Higgs boson or other weak-scale scalar article.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-30 Rose N. Lerner , John McDonald

The concept of Higgs inflation can be elegantly incorporated in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM). A linear combination of the two Higgs-doublet fields plays the role of the inflaton which is non-minimally coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-01 Wolfgang Gregor Hollik , Stefan Liebler , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick , Sebastian Paßehr , Georg Weiglein

In this paper we propose two simple minimal Higgs inflation scenarios through a simple modification of the Higgs potential, as opposed to the usual non-minimal Higgs-gravity coupling prescription. The modification is done in such a way that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Debaprasad Maity

We study a scalar field with non-minimal kinetic coupling to itself and to the curvature. The slow rolling conditions allowing an inflationary background have been found. The quadratic and Higgs type potentials have been considered, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-12 L. N. Granda

In the context of the Higgs model involving gauge and Yukawa interactions with the spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking, we consider $\lambda \phi^4$ inflation with non-minimal gravitational coupling, where the Higgs field is identified as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-23 Nobuchika Okada , Digesh Raut

We generalize the scalar-curvature coupling model ${\xi \Phi^2 R}$ of Higgs inflation to $ {\xi \Phi^a R^b} $ to study inflation. We compute the amplitude and spectral index of curvature perturbations generated during inflation and fix the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-21 Girish Chakravarty , Subhendra Mohanty , Naveen K. Singh

In new Higgs inflation the Higgs kinetic terms are non-minimally coupled to the Einstein tensor, allowing the Higgs field to play the role of the inflaton. The new interaction is non-renormalizable, and the model only describes physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-13 Jacopo Fumagalli , Sander Mooij , Marieke Postma

We study the post-inflationary dynamics of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs field in the presence of a non-minimal coupling $\xi|\Phi|^2R$ to gravity, both with and without the electroweak gauge fields coupled to the Higgs. We assume a minimal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-13 Daniel G. Figueroa , Arttu Rajantie , Francisco Torrenti

Scalar field models of inflation based on a large nonminimal coupling to gravity xi, in particular, Higgs inflation, may violate unitarity at an energy scale ~ M_p / xi << M_p. In this case the model is incomplete at energy scales relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-01 Rose N. Lerner , John McDonald

One of the fundamental objectives of contemporary cosmology is to understand the physics of the inflationary universe, owing to its observably verifiable predictions about the very early universe with an energy scale of $\sim 10^{16}$ GeV.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Aayush Randeep , Rajib Saha

We propose a new construction of the supergravity inflation as an UV completion of the Higgs-$R^2$ inflation. In the dual description of $R^2$-supergravity, we show that there appear dual chiral superfields containing the scalaron or sigma…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Shuntaro Aoki , Hyun Min Lee , Adriana G. Menkara