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Quantum effects in Palatini Higgs inflation

Shaposhnikov, Mikhail  
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Shkerin, Andrey  
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Zell, Sebastian  
July 1, 2020
Journal Of Cosmology And Astroparticle Physics

We study quantum effects in Higgs inflation in the Palatini formulation of gravity, in which the metric and connection are treated as independent variables. We exploit the fact that the cutoff, above which perturbation theory breaks down, is higher than the scale of inflation. Unless new physics above the cutoff leads to unnaturally large corrections, we can directly connect low-energy physics and inflation. On the one hand, the lower bound on the top Yukawa coupling due to collider experiments leads to an upper bound on the non-minimal coupling of the Higgs field to gravity: xi less than or similar to 10(8). On the other hand, the Higgs potential can only support successful inflation if xi less than or similar to 10(6). This leads to a fairly strict upper bound on the top Yukawa coupling of 0:925 (defined in the (MS) over bar -scheme at the energy scale 173:2 GeV) and constrains the inflationary prediction for the tensor-to-scalar ratio. Additionally, we compare our findings to metric Higgs inflation.

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Type
research article
DOI
10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/064
Web of Science ID

WOS:000609085900011

Author(s)
Shaposhnikov, Mikhail  
Shkerin, Andrey  
Zell, Sebastian  
Date Issued

2020-07-01

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Published in
Journal Of Cosmology And Astroparticle Physics
Issue

7

Start page

064

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Physics, Particles & Fields

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Physics

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inflation

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particle physics - cosmology connection

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gravity

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broken symmetries

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dark-matter

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mass

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boson

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renormalization

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vmsm

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