Abstract
For the current central values of the Higgs boson and top quark masses, the standard model Higgs potential develops an instability at a scale of the order of . We show that a cosmological signature of such instability could be dark matter in the form of primordial black holes seeded by Higgs fluctuations during inflation. The existence of dark matter might not require physics beyond the standard model.
- Received 7 November 2017
- Revised 4 January 2018
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.121301
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Synopsis
Cosmic Instability Could Have Created Dark Matter
Published 23 March 2018
A proposed instability in the Higgs field could have seeded the Universe with primordial black holes that now serve as dark matter.
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