The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 659, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 703-706

  Bezrukov, Fedor ^a,b   Shaposhnikov, Mikhail ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Higgs field; Inflation; Non minimal coupling; Standard Model; Variable Planck mass

Indexed keywords

EID: 37549023103     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.072     Document Type: Article

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