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The Higgs mass range from Standard Model false vacuum Inflation in scalar-tensor gravity
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If the standard model is valid up to very high energies it is known that the Higgs potential can develop a local minimum at field values around 10 15 - 10 17 GeV , for a narrow band of values of the top quark and Higgs masses. We show that in a scalar-tensor theory of gravity such Higgs false vacuum can give rise to viable inflation if the potential barrier is very shallow, allowing for tunneling and relaxation into the electroweak scale true vacuum. The amplitude of cosmological density perturbations from inflation is directly linked to the value of the Higgs potential at the false minimum. Requiring the top quark mass, the amplitude and spectral index of density perturbations to be compatible with observations, selects a narrow range of values for the Higgs mass, m H = 126.0 ± 3.5 GeV , where the error is mostly due to the theoretical uncertainty of the 2-loop renormalization group equation. This prediction could be soon tested at the Large Hadron Collider. Our inflationary scenario could also be further checked by better constraining the spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio.
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MASINA, Isabella and NOTARI, Alessio. The Higgs mass range from Standard Model false vacuum Inflation in scalar-tensor gravity. Physical Review D. 2012. Vol. 85, num. 12, pags. 123506. ISSN 1550-7998. [consulted: 15 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/131185