Higgs boson cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-07-22 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The discovery of the Standard Model Higgs boson opens up a range of speculative cosmological scenarios, from the formation of structure in the early universe immediately after the big bang, to relics from the electroweak phase transition one nanosecond after the big bang, on to the end of the present-day universe through vacuum decay. Higgs physics is wide-ranging, and gives an impetus to go beyond the Standard Models of particle physics and cosmology to explore the physics of ultra-high energies and quantum gravity.
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@article{arxiv.1507.05760,
title = {Higgs boson cosmology},
author = {Ian G. Moss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05760},
year = {2015}
}
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15 pages, 7 figures