Black holes and Higgs stability

Journal Article · Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/09/036· OSTI ID:22572154

Tetradis, Nikolaos ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University of Athens,Zographou 157 84 (Greece)

We study the effect of primordial black holes on the classical rate of nucleation of AdS regions within the standard electroweak vacuum. We find that the energy barrier for transitions to the new vacuum, which characterizes the exponential suppression of the nucleation rate, can be reduced significantly in the black-hole background. A precise analysis is required in order to determine whether the the existence of primordial black holes is compatible with the form of the Higgs potential at high temperature or density in the Standard Model or its extensions.

• Sponsoring Organization: SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
• OSTI ID: 22572154
• Journal Information: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 09; Other Information: PUBLISHER-ID: JCAP09(2016)036; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:17246; cc-by Article funded by SCOAP3. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANTI DE SITTER SPACE
ASTROPHYSICS
BLACK HOLES
COSMOLOGY
HIGGS BOSONS
HIGGS MODEL
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
STANDARD MODEL
VACUUM STATES