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- Title
Critical points in Palatini Higgs inflation with small non-minimal coupling.
- Authors
Poisson, Arthur; Timiryasov, Inar; Zell, Sebastian
- Abstract
We investigate inflation driven by the Higgs boson in the Palatini formulation of General Relativity. Our analysis primarily focuses on a small non-minimal coupling of the Higgs field to gravity in the range 0 < ξ ≲ 1. We incorporate the renormalization group running of the relevant parameters as computed within the Standard Model and allow for small corrections. In addition to ξ, our model features two tunable parameters: the low-energy value of the top Yukawa coupling and an effective jump of the Higgs self-interaction. Our results indicate that critical points leading to a large enhancement of the power spectrum can be produced. However, the observed amplitude of perturbations in the CMB cannot be matched within this setting. On the one hand, this makes it difficult to generate a sizable abundance of primordial black holes. On the other hand, our findings can be viewed as very positive since they provide further evidence that Palatini Higgs inflation has favourable high-energy properties due to robustness against quantum corrections.
- Subjects
RENORMALIZATION group; GENERAL relativity (Physics); PARTICLE physics; POWER spectra; BLACK holes; HIGGS bosons; RENORMALIZATION (Physics)
- Publication
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024, Vol 2024, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1126-6708
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/JHEP03(2024)130