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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Main Authors: Sung Mook Lee, Dhong Yeon Cheong, Sang Chul Hyun, Seong Chan Park, Min-Seok Seo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-02-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2022)100