Scalaron-Higgs inflation

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 λ fixed at the electroweak scale, we find that the resulting inflationary tw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anirudh Gundhi, Christian F. Steinwachs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-05-01
Series:Nuclear Physics B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321320300754