Running inflation in the Standard Model

An interacting scalar field with largish coupling to curvature can support a distinctive inflationary universe scenario. Previously this has been discussed for the Standard Model Higgs field, treated classically or in a leading log approximation. Here we investigate the quantum theory using renormal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: De Simone, Andrea, Wilczek, Frank, Hertzberg, Mark Peter
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102218
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-3688
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6489-6155