Published February 1, 2016
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Journal article
Higgs inflation and quantum gravity: an exact renormalisation group approach
Creators
- 1. Faculty of Sciences, Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Campo Grande, PT1749-016 Lisboa (Portugal)
Description
We use the Wilsonian functional Renormalisation Group (RG) to study quantum corrections for the Higgs inflationary action including the effect of gravitons, and analyse the leading-order quantum gravitational corrections to the Higgs' quartic coupling, as well as its non-minimal coupling to gravity and Newton's constant, at the inflationary regime and beyond. We explain how within this framework the effect of Higgs and graviton loops can be sufficiently suppressed during inflation, and we also place a bound on the corresponding value of the infrared RG cut-off scale during inflation. Finally, we briefly discuss the potential embedding of the model within the scenario of Asymptotic Safety, while all main equations are explicitly presented
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/048Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2016
- Journal Issue
- 02
- Journal Page Range
- p. 048
- ISSN
- 1475-7516
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 47095926
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; CORRECTIONS; COSMOLOGICAL INFLATION; COUPLING; GRAVITATION; GRAVITONS; HIGGS BOSONS; HIGGS MODEL; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; POTENTIALS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; RENORMALIZATION
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RADIATIONS