TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.18.028
TI  - On electroweak metastability and Higgs inflation
PY  - 2026/01/29
UR  - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysProc.18.028
JF  - SciPost Physics Proceedings
JA  - SciPost Phys. Proc.
VL  - 
IS  - 18
SP  - 028
A1  - Masina, Isabella
AU  - Quiros, Mariano
AB  - For the central values of the relevant experimental inputs, that is the strong coupling constant and the top quark and Higgs masses, the effective Higgs potential displays two minima, one at the electroweak scale and a deeper one at high energies. We review the phenomenology of the Higgs inflation model, extending the Standard Model to include a non-minimal coupling to gravity; as recently shown, even configurations that would be metastable in the Standard Model, become viable for inflation if the non-minimal coupling is large enough to flatten the Higgs potential at field values below the barrier between the minima.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.18.028,
	title={{On electroweak metastability and Higgs inflation}},
	author={Isabella Masina and Mariano Quiros},
	journal={SciPost Phys. Proc.},
	pages={028},
	year={2026},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.18.028},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.18.028},
}