Some like it hot: R2 heals Higgs inflation, but does not cool it

Strong coupling in Higgs inflation at high energies hinders a joint description of inflation, reheating and low-energy dynamics. The situation may be improved with a proper UV completion of the model. A well-defined self-consistent way is to introduce an R2-term into the action. In this modified mod...

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Main Authors: Fedor Bezrukov, Dmitry Gorbunov, Chris Shepherd, Anna Tokareva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-08-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319304599