Thursday, October 25, 2012

1210.6618 (Andrea De Simone et al.)

Non-Gaussianities from the Standard Model Higgs    [PDF]

Andrea De Simone, Hideki Perrier, Antonio Riotto
We have recently proposed that the Standard Model Higgs might be responsible for generating the cosmological perturbations of the universe by acting as an isocurvature mode during a de Sitter inflationary stage. In this paper we study the level of non-Gaussianity in the cosmological perturbations which are inevitably generated due to the non-linearities of the Standard Model Higgs potential. In particular, for the current central value of the top mass, we find that a future detection of non-Gaussianity would exclude the detection of tensor modes by the PLANCK satellite.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6618

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