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SUMMARY:Higgs inflation at the critical point - Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL
  Lausanne)
DTSTART:20140526T120000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Higgs inflation can occur if the Standard Model is a self-cons
 istent effective field theory up to inflationary scale. This leads to a lo
 wer bound on the Higgs boson mass\, M_h > M_crit. If M_h is more than a fe
 w hundreds of MeV above the critical value\, the Higgs inflation predicts 
 the universal values of inflationary indexes\, r = 0.003 and n_s = 0.97\, 
 independently on the Standard Model parameters. We show that in the vicini
 ty of the critical point M_crit the inflationary indexes acquire an essent
 ial dependence on the mass of the top quark m_t and M_h\, and can be consi
 stent with BICEP 2 data.
LOCATION:CMS\, Pav. B\, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]
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