Cosmological implications of Standard Model criticality and Higgs inflation
Cosmological implications of Standard Model criticality and Higgs inflation
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10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2020.114946
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2017-09
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Yuta Hamada;H. Kawai;Y. Nakanishi;Kin-ya Oda
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Yuta Hamada;H. Kawai;Y. Nakanishi;Kin-ya Oda
The observed Higgs mass indicates that the Standard Model can be valid up to near the Planck scale M P. Within this framework, it is important to examine how little modification is necessary to fit the recent experimental results in particle physics and cosmology. As a minimal extension, we consider the possibility that the Higgs field plays the role of inflaton and that the dark matter is the Higgs-portal scalar field. We assume that the extended Standard Model is valid up to the string scale 10 17 GeV.(This translates to the assumption that all the non-minimal couplings are not particularly large, ξ≲ 10 2, as in the critical Higgs inflation, since M P/10 2∼ 10 17 GeV.) We find a correlated theoretical bound on the tensor-to-scalar ratio r and the dark matter mass m DM. As a result, the Planck bound r< 0.09 implies that the dark-matter mass must be smaller than 1.1 TeV, while the PandaX-II bound on the dark-matter mass m DM> 0.7±0.2 TeV leads to r≳ 2× 10− 3. Both are within the range of near-future detection. When we include the right-handed neutrinos of mass M R∼ 10 14 GeV, the allowed region becomes wider, but we still predict r≳ 10− 3 in the most of the parameter space. The most conservative bound becomes r> 10− 5 if we allow three-parameter tuning of m DM, M R, and the top-quark mass.