The Selfish Higgs

Abstract We propose a mechanism to solve the Higgs naturalness problem through a cosmological selection process. The discharging of excited field configurations through membrane nucleation leads to discrete jumps of the cosmological constant and the Higgs mass, which vary in a correlated way. The re...

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Main Authors: G.F. Giudice, A. Kehagias, A. Riotto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-10-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP10(2019)199