Cosmological Signature of the Standard Model Higgs Vacuum Instability: Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

J. R. Espinosa; D. Racco; A. Riotto

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.121301

Cosmological Signature of the Standard Model Higgs Vacuum Instability: Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

J. R. Espinosa, D. Racco, A. Riotto

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© 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP 3 . For the current central values of the Higgs boson and top quark masses, the standard model Higgs potential develops an instability at a scale of the order of 1011 GeV. We show that a cosmological signature of such instability could be dark matter in the form of primordial black holes seeded by Higgs fluctuations during inflation. The existence of dark matter might not require physics beyond the standard model.

Original language	English
Article number	121301
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	120
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.121301
Publication status	Published - 23 Mar 2018

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