Festina-Lente bound on Higgs vacuum structure and inflation
Abstract The recently suggested Festina-Lente (FL) bound provides a lower bound on the masses of U(1) charged particles in terms of the positive vacuum energy. Since the charged particle masses in the Standard Model (SM) are generated by the Higgs mechanism, the FL bound provides a testbed of consis...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2022-02-01
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Series: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2022)100 |